Morton Norton Cohen (27 February 192112 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 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are '' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequ ...

including the 1995 biography '' Lewis Carroll: A Biography''.

Life

Morton Norton Cohen was born on 27 February 1921 in Calgary, Alberta. His family moved to

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, Quebec, and then to

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. He taught English at

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, Syracuse University,

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and the City College and the

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of the City University of New York. In addition to his work on Charles Dodgson, he produced studies of

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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."Prof Morton N Cohen, FRSL".

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. Retrieved 9 September 2010. 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. 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.""Prizes and awards made to the Darwin Correspondence Project and its founding editor"
. darwinproject.ac.uk (Darwin Correspondence Project). Retrieved 9 September 2010. Cohen died on 12 June 2017 in

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, New York.

Selected works

All five works are books (October 2018). * ''H. Rider Haggard, His Life and Works'' – PhD thesis, Columbia University, issued 1958 in microfilm * ''Rider Haggard: His Life and Works'' (London: Hutchinson, 1960) * ''Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship'' (Hutchinson, 1965) * ''The Letters of Lewis Carroll'', 2 vols., ed. Cohen with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green (Oxford University Press, 1979) * ''The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll'', edited by Cohen (London: Macmillan, 1982); (London: Papermac, 1996) * ''Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan'', ed. Cohen and Anita Gandolfo (Cambridge University Press, 1987) * ''Lewis Carroll: Interviews and Recollections'', ed. Cohen (University of Iowa Press, 1989) * ''Lewis Carroll: A Biography'' (Macmillan, 1995) * ''Reflections in a Looking Glass: A Centennial Celebration of Lewis Carroll, Photographer'' (New York: Aperture, 1998) * ''Lewis Carroll & His Illustrators: Collaborations and Correspondence, 1865–1898'', ed. Cohen and Edward Wakeling (Macmillan, 2003)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Morton N. 1921 births 2017 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature American male biographers City College of New York faculty Writers from Calgary West Virginia University faculty Syracuse University faculty Rutgers University faculty Canadian emigrants to the United States Historians from New York (state) 20th-century American biographers