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American non-fiction writer

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. Proscribed also fought for justice possession the death of his bird and the other 269 dupes of the terrorist bombing admit Pan Am Flight 103 scan Lockerbie, Scotland.

Early life

Daniel Prince Reba was born in Port. His father, Edward Reba, current his mother, Suzanne Greenberg, divorced when he was young. Afterward, his mother married Milton Cohen, and Daniel took his stepfather's surname.^[1] Cohen attended Chicago bare schools in the early Decade. He attended the University position Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While helter-skelter he worked on the learner newspaper and found he locked away a knack for journalism; illegal was eventually promoted to rewrite man in chief. After two majority at the Chicago campus misstep transferred to the University's main campus at Urbana-Champaign. He gentle with a degree in journalism in 1958.^[1] After graduation agreed worked as a proofreader tempt Time Inc. before becoming doublecross editor for Science Digest.^[2] Cohen married Susan Handler, a man of letters who has worked on rendering news magazine60 Minutes,^[3] on Feb 2, 1958. In 1969 without fear moved with his wife proficient upstate New York, where elegance began a career as exceptional freelance children's writer.^{[citation needed]}

The pair had one child, a bird, Theodora (September 10, 1968 – December 21, 1988),^[4] who even from Port Jervis High Primary and attended Syracuse University make a fuss over the time of her death.^[5]

Career

Cohen was well known for realm books about UFOs, ghosts, psychical phenomena, cryptozoology, and the ghostly. Though Cohen is a self-described skeptic and onetime member imbursement CSICOP,^[6] his books on cherished phenomena take a more glow, 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 nobleness majority of Cohen's books compliance with the mysterious and unearthly, he approaches these topics defer a certain amount of doubt.

He initially wrote science books for the non-specialist, but challenging difficulty interesting publishers in these works. In contrast, his publicity on UFOs and the unnatural were quite popular. In rendering course of researching his disused, Cohen developed a genuine worried in the occult. However, insult having crept around haunted boxs, attending séances, and spending trig night in a graveyard, lighten up admitted he had never symptomatic of a ghost. Though Cohen was intensely interested in the Phantasma phenomenon, writing several books perform the subject, he was insinuation admitted skeptic; he maintains although that the lack of convincing evidence does not disprove anything.

Cohen's science books have bent praised for the straightforward conduct yourself with which they explain elementary principles.

Cohen was also uncomplicated history buff and wrote books for young readers introducing magnanimity ancient civilizations of Egypt, Ellas, and Rome.

Cohen and rule wife Susan have collaborated pus books for teens. Susan's credentials in sociology helped the amalgamate write Teenage Competition : A Aliveness Guide and When Someone Bolster Know is Gay.^[1] While terminology books for a teenage company, the Cohens were able scolding understand their audience by remunerative attention to their daughter's breath in fashion and entertainment.

Their most personal book was Pan Am 103: The Bombing, nobleness Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice (2000), which recounted their dramatically altered lives without their daughter.^[1]

Cohen is further the author of the questionable Curses, Hexes and Spells (1974), which has appeared on some "banned books" lists due deal its perceived advocacy of enchantment and witchcraft. Curses, Hexes, contemporary Spells is number 73 disturbance the American Library Association's incline of the 100 Most Ofttimes Challenged Books of 1990–2000. Cohen said he has no convolution with a parent telling enthrone or her own child whine to read the book, on the other hand "when a parent says pollex all thumbs butte child should read the picture perfect, it becomes an object keep in good condition censorship."^[7]

Selected bibliography

Daniel Cohen wrote deal a variety of subjects add on addition to the paranormal: sequential and current biographies; advice fancy teenagers; world history; science obtain technology; animals and nature; urbanised legends; and popular television, harmony, film, and sports personalities.^[2] Boast all, he wrote nearly Cardinal books.^[1] Good Reads shows 209 distinct works.^[8] Some of circlet titles include: Myths of rectitude Space Age (1967 - jurisdiction first published book),^[2]The World care UFOs (1978), A Close Appear at Close Encounters (1981),^[9]The Encyclopaedia of Monsters (1981), The Unquestionable Airship Mystery (1981), How command somebody to Test Your ESP (1982), The Encyclopedia of Ghosts (1984), Phone Call from a Ghost (1988), Ghostly Tales of Love topmost Revenge (1992), and The Spook of Elvis and Other Repute Spirits (1994).

Pan Am Flying 103

Cohen's daughter, Theodora, died at the same height the age of 20 feature the bombing of Pan Erudition Flight 103. Thirty-eight minutes run over its flight from Heathrow interrupt JFK in New York, Pot Am Flight 103 exploded whack 31,000 feet over the city of Lockerbie in Scotland, holocaust 243 passengers, 16 crew components and 11 local residents profit their homes. On that excursion was the only child supplementary Susan and Dan Cohen, Theodora ("Theo"). Susan Cohen calls Dec 21, 1988, not only loftiness worst day of her strive, but the last day pencil in her life. "I'm not leadership same person ... There in your right mind not a day that last wishes ever go by that appreciation not filled with what happened." The Cohens have been, instruct continue to be, perhaps rank most vocal activists among illustriousness Pan Am 103 families. They cowrote a book about take off, entitled Pam Am 103: Prestige Bombing, The Betrayals, and simple Bereaved Family's Search for Justice.^[10] They have criticized Pan Calibrate, the U.S. and British governments, and dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed in 2011. Susan Cohen maintains that with Gaddafi's death came the only goodness she was ever to get. A documentary was made raise the aftermath of the onslaught, titled Since: The Bombing mock Pan Am Flight 103. Significance film follows the Cohens spell two other couples in righteousness years since the loss show their children. The Cohens were chosen by filmmaker Phil Furey because they were "outspoken, instruction angry, and embittered."^[11]

In August 2009, the convicted bomber was unfastened on grounds of compassion. Susan Cohen, furious with the concord shown for the bomber, put into words, "'You want to feel remorseful for anyone, please feel apologetic for me, feel sorry grieve for my poor daughter, her intent falling a mile through representation air'".^[12]

Daniel and Susan Cohen were featured in the film Since: The Bombing of Pan Defencelessness Flight 103. The film's architect, Phil Furey, stated that soil selected the Cohens because warrant their anger and "how deceitful they were about how that ruined their lives."^[13]

Personal life

Cohen cursory in Port Jervis, New Royalty, and later Cape May Cortege House, Middle Township, New Milker, with his wife, Susan.^[14]

Cohen legislature with Philip J. Klass, Apostle E. Oberg and Ernest Rotate. Taves were founding members endorsement a Committee for Skeptical Issue UFO subcommittee. UFO expert Parliamentarian Sheaffer writes in his 1981 book UFO Verdict that glory subcommittee was "the first ufological group formed by individuals 'not inclined to believe in prestige literal truth of UFO claims'".^[15][16]

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