1. Edward Benjamin Koren was an American writer, illustrator, and political cartoonist, most notably featured in The New Yorker.
11 Facts About Ed Koren
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Edward Benjamin Ed Koren was born in a Jewish family in New York City on December 13,1935, and attended Horace Mann School and Columbia University, graduating in 1957.
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Ed Koren began his cartooning career at Columbia while drawing for the college's humor magazine.
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In May 1962, The New Yorker accepted one of Ed Koren's cartoons featuring a sloppy looking writer, cigarette dangling from his lips, sitting before a typewriter.
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Ed Koren contributed to many other publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, GQ, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, Fortune, Vanity Fair, The Nation, and The Boston Globe.
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Ed Koren collaborated with numerous contemporary humorists and authors, notably George Plimpton and Delia Ephron.
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Ed Koren resided with his family in Vermont where he was a member of the Brookfield Volunteer Fire Department, formerly serving as its captain.
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Ed Koren died of lung cancer in Brookfield, Vermont, on April 14,2023, at the age of 87.
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Ed Koren received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Union College, and received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 1970.
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Ed Koren received the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2007.
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Ed Koren was appointed Vermont's second Cartoonist Laureate in 2014, serving in the position until 2017.