Morton Norton Cohen (27 February 1921 – 12 June 2017) was a Canadian-born American author and scholar who was a professor at City University of New York. He is best known for his studies of children's author Lewis Carroll including the 1995 biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography.[1][2][3]

Life

Morton Norton Cohen was born on 27 February 1921 in Calgary, Alberta.[4] His family moved to Montreal, Quebec, and then to Revere, Massachusetts.[4] He taught English at West Virginia University, Syracuse University, Rutgers University and the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to his work on Charles Dodgson, he produced studies of Henry Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling and other Victorian subjects, as well as children's literature, travel articles and fiction. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1996.[5] The Modern Language Association set up the biennial Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters in 1989. The first award was given in 1991.[6] Under the terms of the award, the "winning collection will be one that provides readers with a clear, accurate, and readable text; necessary background information; and succinct and eloquent introductory material and annotations. The edited collection should be in itself a work of literature."[7][8]

Cohen died on 12 June 2017 in Manhattan, New York.[4]

Selected works

All five works are books (October 2018).

References

  1. ^ Bartlett, Rebecca Ann (1998). Choice's Outstanding Academic Books 1992–1997: Reviews of Scholarly Titles That Every Library Should Own .Association of College and Research Libraries (American Library Association). p. 128. ISBN 978-0-8389-7929-7
  2. ^ Burt, Daniel S. (2001). The Biography Book: A Reader's Guide To Nonfiction, Fictional, and Film Biographies of More Than 500 of the Most Fascinating Individuals of all Time. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-57356-256-0
  3. ^ Edinger, Monica (2001). Using Beloved Classics to Deepen Reading Comprehension: Rich Lessons and Literature Response Activities That Improve Kids' Reading Comprehension, Build Writing Skills, and Really Engage Each and Every Reader. Scholastic Inc. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-439-27860-7
  4. ^ a b c Sandomir, Richard (5 July 2017). "Morton Cohen, Scholar of Lewis Carroll and His Wonderland, Dies at 96". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Prof Morton N Cohen, FRSL". Debrett's. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
  6. ^ "Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
  7. ^ "Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
  8. ^ "Prizes and awards made to the Darwin Correspondence Project and its founding editor" Archived 2010-10-07 at the Wayback Machine. darwinproject.ac.uk (Darwin Correspondence Project). Retrieved 9 September 2010.
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