Morton Norton Cohen
author
Morton Norton Cohen (1921–2017) was a Canadian-born American literary scholar and biographer who specialized in Victorian literature. He is most renowned for his extensive scholarship on the author Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), producing several definitive works including 'Lewis Carroll: A Biography' (1995). Cohen held various academic positions, teaching English at institutions such as West Virginia University, Syracuse University, Rutgers University, and the City College of New York. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (elected 1996) and received the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters from the Modern Language Association in 1989. Beyond his work on Carroll, he produced significant studies on authors such as Rudyard Kipling and Henry Rider Haggard.[1,2,3,4,5]
- Victorian literature
- Lewis Carroll
- biography
Books
Works by Morton Norton Cohen
- 1979 Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies
- 1995 Lewis Carroll: A Biography
- 1979 The Letters of Lewis Carroll 2 volumes
- 1960 Rider Haggard: His Life and Works
Awards
- 1989 Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters