Rachel Cohen

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Rachel Cohen
Born (1973-05-19) May 19, 1973 (age 52)
Occupations
  • Essayist
  • biographer
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship (2014)
Academic background
Alma mater Harvard University

Rachel Cohen (born May 19, 1973) is an American essayist and biographer. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists (2004), also published as A Chance Meeting: American Encounters (2024); Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade (2013); and Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels (2020). She has been on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Chicago.

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Biography

Rachel Cohen was born in 1973 and raised in an "academic family" in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she attended high school. [1] She received the James N. Britton volume An Anthology of Verse for Children as a young child. [2] She obtained her BA from Harvard University in 1994. [3] In 1993, she originally worked as an AIDS activist while in Paris. [2]

Cohen was a MacDowell Colony Fellow twice, in 2000 and 2002. [4] She won the 2003 PEN/Jerard Fund Award for her essay series A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists. [5] [6] In 2013, she published Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, a biography of the art historian. [7] In 2014, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction. [8] In 2020, she published Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels, about Jane Austen. [9] She also "wrote a whole book of essays about Pessoa, Mandelstam and Cavafy that was never published". [2] She is also a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. [8]

At some point before 2004, [1] Cohen joined the Sarah Lawrence College faculty, specializing in creative writing. [8] In 2016, she began teaching at the University of Chicago, working as a professor of practice. [3] Following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, she began using Zoom as a platform for classes with 92nd Street Y. [2]

Cohen has lived in Brooklyn, [1] Cambridge, Massachusetts, [8] and Chicago. [2]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ↑ Reviews of this book: [10] [6] [11] [12] [13] [1]
  2. ↑ Reviews of this book: [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
  3. ↑ Reviews of this book: [20] [21] [22] [23]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Warren, Marcus (April 19, 2004). "A writer's life: Rachel Cohen". The Telegraph. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Stopping by with Rachel Cohen". Poetry Society of America. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Rachel Cohen". english.uchicago.edu. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Rachel Cohen - Artist". MacDowell. Archived from the original on September 25, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  5. ↑ "PEN/Jerard Fund Award Winners". PEN America. May 5, 2016. Archived from the original on September 9, 2025. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Belth, Alex (May 10, 2024). "'A Chance Meeting' Review: A History of Chat, in Rooms". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on June 26, 2024. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade". The Morgan Shop. Archived from the original on August 9, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Rachel Cohen". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on October 4, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Austen Years". Macmillan Publishers. Archived from the original on January 27, 2022. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  10. ↑ Abbott, Ruth (2007). "Who Do You Think You Are?". The Cambridge Quarterly. 36 (4): 342–352. ISSN   0008-199X. JSTOR   42967049.
  11. ↑ "Review of A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967". Poetry. 183 (6): 354–354. 2004. ISSN   0032-2032. JSTOR   20606519.
  12. ↑ Sjoholm, Barbara (2004). "Solitaries and Friends". The Women's Review of Books. 22 (1): 12–12. doi:10.2307/4024460. ISSN   0738-1433. JSTOR   4024460.
  13. ↑ Walpole, Peter (2004). "Review of A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854?1967". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 80 (4): 283–284. ISSN   0042-675X. JSTOR   26439773.
  14. ↑ Lieberman, Ralph (May 17, 2017). "Review of "Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade" by Rachel Cohen". caa.reviews. doi: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2017.68 . ISSN   1543-950X.
  15. ↑ "Book Review: Art Historian Bernard Berenson - Reinvention as the American Dream - The Arts Fuse". The Arts Fuse. January 19, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  16. ↑ Waxman, Maron L. (2013). "Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade". Jewish Book Council. Archived from the original on March 24, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  17. ↑ Eakin, Hugh (November 1, 2013). "Book Review: 'Bernard Berenson' by Rachel Cohen". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  18. ↑ Endelman, Todd M. (2014). "Rachel Cohen. Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade. Jewish Lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 344 pp" . AJS Review. 38 (2): 487–489. doi:10.1017/S036400941400052X. ISSN   0364-0094.
  19. ↑ Simon, Robert B. (2014). "Review of Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade". The Burlington Magazine. 156 (1336): 472–473. ISSN   0007-6287. JSTOR   24241836.
  20. ↑ "AUSTEN YEARS". Kirkus Reviews. January 1, 2020. Archived from the original on July 15, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  21. ↑ "The Consolations of Jane Austen (Published 2020)". July 21, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  22. ↑ Cohen, Adam (July 23, 2020). "REVIEW: Jane Austen's Novels, Read Through a Prism of Motherhood and Mourning". The National Book Review. Archived from the original on December 25, 2022. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
  23. ↑ "Review | A writer spent years reading only the work of Jane Austen. She learned a lot about herself". The Washington Post. July 29, 2020. ISSN   0190-8286. Archived from the original on November 19, 2022. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
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