Robert Cohen is the author of four novels, including Amateur Barbarians and Inspired Sleep (Scribner), and a collection of stories, The Varieties of Romantic Experience (Vintage). His accolades include a Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Ribalow Prize for Best Jewish Novel, and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers Award. His short fiction and essays have appeared in, among others, Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Believer, and Ploughshares. A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University, Cohen has also taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Rice, and the University of Houston. He now teaches at Middlebury College and in the Warren Wilson M.F.A. program. He lives in Vermont with his wife and three children.
Robert Jesse Cohen
Studios
Banks
Robert Jesse Cohen worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…