Lester Cohen

Lester Cohen
Born(1901-08-17)August 17, 1901
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJuly 17, 1963(1963-07-17) (aged 61)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • screenwriter
  • author
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
GenreNon-fiction
SpousePriscilla Pardridge
Diana Peckham
(m. 1947)
Children1
ParentsHyman Cohen
Annie Harchovsky

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.[1]

  1. ^ "Lester Cohen, 61, Novelist, is Dead; 'Sweepings' Author Adapted 'Human Bondage' as Film Wrote 'Great Bear' Supported a Strike". The New York Times. July 19, 1963. p. 25.