Richard Cohen
Biography
Richard Cohen is a British author, editor, and former Olympic fencer who represented Great Britain at three Olympic Games and was a five-time British sabre champion. He served as publishing director of Hutchinson and Hodder & Stoughton, editing authors including John le Carre and Kingsley Amis. He is the author of By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions, Chasing the Sun, and Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past.
Sample Works
- By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions (2002) Book
- Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life (2010) Book
- How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers (2016) Book
- Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (2022) Book
Roundtable Appearances
January 30, 2021 · ▶ Video
The Many Minds of Memory
Memory functions as "a dynamic process, a stream of renditions and reflections" rather than static storage. The event explores how memory "conveys to us not what strictly...
Cristina Alberini, Richard Cohen, Gayatri Devi, Alexandra Horowitz, Andy Lee, Setsuko Winchester