Leah Hager Cohen
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Leah Hager Cohen is an American
author who writes both fiction and nonfiction.
Cohen's father was superintendent of the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens, New York, and she became fluent in sign language there. She entered NYU at age 16, intending to study drama, but later transferred to Hampshire College
to study literature, graduating in 1988. After working as a sign language interpreter for two years, she entered Columbia Journalism School, graduating in 1991. Deciding she had no interest in being a reporter, she intended to write fiction on the side. An offer from a New York literary agent to publish her nonfiction, but not her short stories, changed her mind. She is currently working on her fourth novel.
Cohen lives in Belmont, Massachusetts
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United States
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author who writes both fiction and nonfiction.
Cohen's father was superintendent of the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens, New York, and she became fluent in sign language there. She entered NYU at age 16, intending to study drama, but later transferred to Hampshire College
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1965 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts...
to study literature, graduating in 1988. After working as a sign language interpreter for two years, she entered Columbia Journalism School, graduating in 1991. Deciding she had no interest in being a reporter, she intended to write fiction on the side. An offer from a New York literary agent to publish her nonfiction, but not her short stories, changed her mind. She is currently working on her fourth novel.
Cohen lives in Belmont, Massachusetts
Belmont, Massachusetts
Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census.- History :Belmont was founded on March 18, 1859 by former citizens of, and land from the bordering towns of Watertown, to the south; Waltham, to the west; and Arlington, then...
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Fiction
- Heat Lightning (Harper Perenniel, 1998)
- Heart, Your Bully, You Punk (2004)
- House Lights (W. W. Norton & Company, 2008)
- The Grief of Others (Riverhead, 2011)
Non-Fiction
- Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World (Vintage, 1994)
- Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things (Currency, 1998)
- The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Curtain of an American Community Theater (Penguin, 2002)
- Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight (Random House, 2005)