Box 11

Scope and Contents This series contains the majority of Cohen’s papers and reflect a prolific and creative writing life, including copious notes, manuscript drafts, and revisions that trace the outlines of his creative process. This series also includes print publications of Cohen’s work, including his award-winning collection, Before Stonewall. Cohen wrote across genres and, as a true working writer, he often adapted his work into different formats and genres—novels into...

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The Novels and Novellas subseries contains materials related to Cohen's longer fiction writing, including drafts of published and unpublished manuscripts. This subseries includes several notable versions of $250,000, Cohen's first novel--a typed draft of the novel, a marked-up copyediting pass of the book, and an uncorrected proof from G. P. Putnam's Sons (the publisher)--demonstrating some stages of the American publication process during the mid-to-late 1960s.

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The title of this work changes slightly from draft to draft, but since the drafts are undated, the exact evolution of the title is not certain. The first draft was titled Delia, but the archivist used the title that appeared most frequently in the drafts, Dirty Mouth.

Abstract

The Edward M. Cohen Papers collects the publications, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, and other ephemera of Edward M. Cohen (b. 1936 - d. 2023), a gay author, playwright, director, former Queens College student and Jewish New Yorker.

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Delia appears to be an alternate title for Dirty Mouth.

Scope and Contents From the File:

The title of this work changes slightly from draft to draft, but since the drafts are undated, the exact evolution of the title is not certain. The first draft was titled Delia, but the archivist used the title that appeared most frequently in the drafts, Dirty Mouth.

Scope and Contents From the File:

The title of this work changes slightly from draft to draft, but since the drafts are undated, the exact evolution of the title is not certain. The first draft was titled Delia, but the archivist used the title that appeared most frequently in the drafts, Dirty Mouth.

Scope and Contents From the File:

The title of this work changes slightly from draft to draft, but since the drafts are undated, the exact evolution of the title is not certain. The first draft was titled Delia, but the archivist used the title that appeared most frequently in the drafts, Dirty Mouth.

Scope and Contents From the File:

The title of this work changes slightly from draft to draft, but since the drafts are undated, the exact evolution of the title is not certain. The first draft was titled Delia, but the archivist used the title that appeared most frequently in the drafts, Dirty Mouth.

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This draft was located in envelope labeled "1st Draft."