Daniel Cohen

Daniel Edward Cohen (March 12, 1936 – May 6, 2018) was an American non-fiction author who wrote over one hundred books on a variety of subjects, mainly for young audiences. He also fought for justice for the death of his daughter and the other 269 victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Early life Daniel Edward Reba was born in Chicago. His father, Edward Reba, and his mother, Suzanne Greenberg, divorced when he was young. Later, his mother married Milton Cohen, and Daniel took his stepfather's surname. Cohen attended Chicago public schools in the early 1950s. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While there he worked on the student newspaper and found he had a knack for journalism; he was eventually promoted to editor in chief. After two years at the Chicago campus he transferred to the University's central campus at Urbana-Champaign. He graduated with a degree in journalism in 1958. After graduation he worked as a proofreader at Time Inc. before becoming an editor for Science Digest. Cohen married Susan Handler, a writer who has worked on 60 Minutes the news magazine, on February 2, 1958. In 1969 he moved with his wife to upstate New York, where he began a career as a freelance children's writer. The couple had one child, a daughter, Theodora (September 10, 1968 – December 21, 1988), who graduated from Port Jervis High School and attended Syracuse University at the time of her death. Career Cohen was well known for his books about UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena, cryptozoology, and the occult. Though Cohen is a self-described skeptic and onetime member of CSICOP, his books on paranormal phenomena take a more light-hearted, open-minded stance. Daniel Cohen wrote about a variety of subjects of interest to young readers, including movies and television, extraterrestrials, and the supernatural. While the majority of Cohen's books deal with the mysterious and otherworldly, he approaches these topics with a certain amount of skepticism.