Joshua cohen author biography search

American novelist and story writer

For other people named Joshua Cohen, see Joshua Cohen (disambiguation).

Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6, 1980) is an American novelist and story writer, best known for his works Witz (2010), Book of Numbers (2015), and Moving Kings (2017).

Joshua cohen zionism

Cohen won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Netanyahus (2021).

Life

Cohen grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, spent his summers in Cape May, New Jersey and went to school at Trocki Hebrew Academy before transferring to Mainland Regional High School.^[1] He lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

He reads both German and Hebrew and has translated works in both languages into English.^[2]

Work and career

Cohen graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with a degree in music composition in 2001.^[3] He does not have an MFA, and has expressed disdain for the degree, but has taught the course "Long Century, Short No