Lester Cohen

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-08-17 (62 years old)

Deathday

1963-07-17

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Lester Cohen

Biography

Lester Cohen (August 17, 1901 - July 17, 1963) was an American novelist, screenwriter and author of non-fiction. He is best known as the author of the novels Sweepings and Coming Home, and the screen play for Of Human Bondage. Cohen was the author of nine published books, two (or more) unpublished works (including The Fabulous World of Horace Liveright about the founder of Boni-Liveright Publishers and his circle, and Fallen Nation, an epic unfinished at the time of his death); six full-length stage plays, many short plays and scripts for television; poetry; articles and stories for periodicals; reviews and editorials for Variety; and many s...

Production

1933

One Man's Journey

as Screenplay

1935

1934

Of Human Bondage

as Screenplay

1933

Sweepings

as Novel

1933

Sweepings

as Screenplay

1939

Three Sons

as Novel

1933

Nagana

as Story

1991

Dogfight

as Production Design

1937

Quality Street

as Continuity

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