Box 13

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This collection also includes drafts of a script version of this work (also in Box 13), although it is unclear from the records which version was adapted into the other.

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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This subseries contains short fiction manuscripts, as well as an honorable mention award in a short fiction contest. Versions of some of these stories are also included in Cohen's memoir, but it is not known if names were fictionalized for any of the versions.

Additional examples of Cohen's short fiction are included in the Collections and Anthologies subseries, under Shadow: Part 1 and in the Publications subseries.

Scope and Contents Materials in this subseries reflect Cohen's work writing plays and musicals. Several of these works were produced for the stage, as documented in Cohen's Scrapbook, including City Boy, The Complaint Department Closes at Five, and Cakes with the Wine. The papers related to The Complaint Department Closes at Five illuminate Cohen's creative process, from the many notes he used...

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The Nonfiction subseries includes materials related to Cohen's nonfiction writing, including drafts of published work, such as a manuscript draft of Working on a New Play, and unpublished work, such as a memoir in-progress(Stories for My Grandson), and a proposal for a book about Broadway lore (Broadway Legends).

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This collection also includes hardcover and trade paperback printed editions of Working on a New Play, located in Book Tote 1.

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A draft of Working on a New Play with a slightly different title.

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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The Nonfiction subseries includes materials related to Cohen's nonfiction writing, including drafts of published work, such as a manuscript draft of Working on a New Play, and unpublished work, such as a memoir in-progress(Stories for My Grandson), and a proposal for a book about Broadway lore (Broadway Legends).

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The short story "Cream of Mushroom Soup" is also located in Box 13.