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19 Facts About Rich Cohen

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Rich Cohen was born on July 30,1968 and is an American non-fiction writer.

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Rich Cohen is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone.

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Rich Cohen is co-creator, with Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, of the HBO series Vinyl.

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Rich Cohen's works have been New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books, and have been collected in the Best American Essays series.

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Rich Cohen is not to be confused with Richard A Cohen.

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Rich Cohen received his BA from Tulane University in 1990.

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Rich Cohen's sister, Sharon Cohen Levin, is an Assistant United States Attorney of the Southern District of New York.

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Rich Cohen's brother, Steve Cohen, a former aide to New York governor Andrew Cuomo, is a partner at the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder in New York City.

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Liebling, Ian Frazier, and Joseph Mitchell, Rich Cohen took a job as a messenger at the offices of The New Yorker magazine, where he published twelve stories in the "Talk of the Town" section in eighteen months.

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In 2022, Rich Cohen became a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

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In 2006, Rich Cohen published Sweet and Low: A Family Story, a memoir about the creation of the artificial sweetener, a product invented by Benjamin Eisenstadt, Rich Cohen's grandfather.

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In 2009, Rich Cohen published Israel is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and its History.

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In 2010, Rich Cohen co-wrote the memoir When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead, the story of American film producer Jerry Weintraub.

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In 2013, Rich Cohen published Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, a story of football through the eyes of the 1985 Chicago Bears.

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Rich Cohen had been on close terms with the Rolling Stones since the mid-1990s.

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In 2021 and 2022, Rich Cohen published a pair of memoirs: one about fatherhood, the second about his own father.

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On February 26,2007, Paramount Pictures announced it had closed a deal to produce The Long Play, a screenplay which Rich Cohen wrote several drafts for and did research on, for producers Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, with Scorsese directing.

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In 2012 and 2013 Rich Cohen was an advisor on the Starz series Magic City.

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Rich Cohen is a co-creator, with Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, of the HBO series Vinyl.