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Richard Cohen

Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen is the author of By the Sword, Chasing the Sun, and How to Write Like Tolstoy. The former publishing director of two leading London publishing houses, he has edited books that have won the Pulitzer, Booker, and Whitbread/Costa prizes, while twenty-one have been #1 bestsellers. He has written for most UK quality newspapers as well as for The New York Times Book Review and The Wall Street Journal, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Connect with him on Facebook @RichardCohenAuthor and Twitter @AboutRichard.


How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

Richard Cohen on the Enduring Influence of One of Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Historians
April 22, 2022  By Richard Cohen
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How Writers Will Steal Your Life and Use it For Fiction

A Brief History of Plagiarizing Identity, From Leo Tolstoy to Salman Rushdie
May 18, 2016  By Richard Cohen
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