Rachel Cohen
Artist Description
Rachel Cohen will be reading from her book A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, which traces thirty-six actual encounters among writers and artists over the course of a century. Published in 2004 by Random House, it won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Prize and the PEN/Martha Albrand First Nonfiction Award. A fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Breadloaf, and the New York Institute for the Humanities, she has published pieces in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books and McSweeney's, and been anthologized in Best American Essays. She teaches in the writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Queens, where she is at work on a book about art historian Bernard Berenson for Yale University Press.
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