| LC control no. | n 79023281 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cohen, Daniel, 1936-2018 |
| Variant(s) | Cohen, Daniel E. (Daniel Edward), 1936-2018 Reba, Daniel Edward, 1936-2018 |
| Birth date | 1936-03-12 |
| Death date | 2018-05-06 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Cape May (N.J.) |
| Field of activity | Children's literature |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Found in | Myths of the space age, 1967. The beheaded freshman and other nasty rumors, c1993: t.p. (Daniel Cohen) p. facing t.p. (author of more than 150 bks. for young people and adults; has written on topics from astronomy to zoology; best known for bks. on weird and offbeat topics like ghosts, monsters, and creepy legends; lives in Cape May, N.J.) Letter from author, May 11, 1998 (Daniel E. Cohen; has always written as Daniel, never as Dan; not author of series of children's mysteries ca. 1980) Wikipedia, Oct. 07, 2014 (Daniel Edward Cohen; born March 12, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois; non-fiction writer who has produced over one-hundred books, mainly for young audiences. Cohen is well known for his books about UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena, cryptozoology, as well as numerous other topics, including sports, history, dinosaurs, nature, technology, and folklore. Cohen's daughter, Theodora, died in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, September 11, 2001. He and his wife Susan cowrote a book about it, entitled Pam Am 103: The Bombing, The Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice) New York times WWW site, viewed May 10, 2018 (in obituary published May 9: Daniel Cohen; b. Daniel Edward Reba, Mar. 12, 1936, Chicago; his parents divorced when he was very young; soon after that, his mother married Milton Cohen, and Daniel took his stepfather's surname; d. Sunday [May 6, 2018], Cape May, N.J., aged 82; children's book author who exhaustively sought justice for his 20-year-old daughter and the 269 other victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland) |
| Associated language | eng |
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