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Richard Cohen

Born

in Birmingham, The United Kingdom

May 09, 1947

Genre

History, Sports

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Richard A Cohen is the author of Chasing the Sun: the story of man's relationship to that star, By the Sword: a history of sword fighting and How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers.

From 2015 to 2017, he was been the tour expert for the New York Times tour of the World War I battlefields of France and Belgium.

He is a former publishing director of Hutchinson and Hodder & Stoughton, and the founder of Richard Cohen Books, as well as former director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature.

He is a five-time U.K. national sabre champion and was selected for the British Olympic fencing team in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984. He lives in New York City with his wife, the literary agent Kathy Robbins. ...more

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	By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions 3.87 avg rating — 776 ratings — published 2002 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers 3.88 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2016 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past 4.02 avg rating — 425 ratings — published 2020 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life 3.60 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern British Fencing: History of the Amateur Fencing Association, 1964-81 - A Memorial Volume to Charles De Beaumont, Including a Short Biography by Edmund Gray, Richard Cohen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As the Italian saying has it, Se non è vero, è ben trovato—maybe it’s not true, it’s still a good story.”
― Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

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“dubbed”
― Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

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“One wonders why the Bible was ever taken literally; the Hebrews always understood the early parts of Genesis to be fables. The modern insistence on literalism is largely due to the influence of southern U.S. Protestants around 1910.”
― Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

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