Daniel Cohen (children's writer)

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Paranormal Researcher

Biography

Name:	Daniel Edward Cohen
Born:	March 12, 1936 Chicago, Illinois
Resume

Field:	Children's Author
Paranormal Area:	Paranormal writer
Affiliates:	CSICOP

Daniel Edward Cohen (born March 12, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American non-fiction writer who has produced over one-hundred books, mainly for young audiences.

Cohen attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he graduated with degree in journalism in 1958. During the 1950s and 1960s he worked as an editor for Science Digest, and in 1969 he moved to upstate New York with his wife, Susan, to begin a three-decade career as a freelance children’s writer.

Cohen is best known for his paperbacks about UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena, cryptozoology, and the occult. Though Cohen is a self-described skeptic and onetime member of CSICOP, his books on paranormal phenomena take a more light-hearted, open-minded stance and tend to avoid dogmatic debunking. Some of these books include The World of UFOs (1978), The Encyclopedia of Monsters (1981), The Great Airship Mystery (1981), How to Test Your ESP (1982), Phone Call from a Ghost (1988), Ghostly Tales of Love and Revenge (1992), and The Ghost of Elvis and Other Celebrity Spirits (1994). Cohen is also the author of the controversial Curses, Hexes and Spells (1974), which has appeared on several “banned books” lists due to its perceived advocacy of magic and witchcraft.

Cohen has written on numerous other topics, as well, including sports, history, dinosaurs, nature, technology, folklore, and popular culture. He currently lives in New Jersey.