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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and Novellas subseries contains materials related to Cohen's longer fiction writing, including drafts of published and unpublished manuscripts.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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A copyedited version of the manuscript, marked up with notes from the copyeditor. Copyediting passes typically happen a year or so before the final publication, except for instances of "crash" publications, which are on a shortened or rush schedule.

Scope and Contents Materials here include 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. Cohen adapted $250,000 for the stage in his play Cakes with the Wine, examples of which are included in the Plays and Musicals subseries. Promotional materials, reviews, and...

Scope and Contents From the File: Materials here include 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. Cohen adapted $250,000 for the stage in his play Cakes with the Wine, examples of which are included in the Plays and Musicals subseries. Promotional materials, reviews, and...

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A final proof pass of $250,000, would have been created just before the book was published.

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.