Tish Cohen is a Canadian novelist.
Early life Born in Toronto, Cohen spent most of her childhood in Montreal, but spent her teenage years with her father beginning in the 7th grade at a high school in Orange County, California (The OC).Bert Archer: The lucrative business of speedwriting, The Globe and Mail, May 21, 2007 Celebrity Spaces: Tish Cohen, Toronto Sun, September 19, 2013: „until seventh grade and then moved to California for high school"Cecily Ross: Book Review: The Truth About Delilah Blue, by Tish Cohen, nationalpost.com, July 24, 2010: "Like her creation, the author was raised in California by a single father."
Career Tish Cohen finished her studies at the Ted Rogers School of Management of Toronto Metropolitan University in 1988.Tish Cohen, .torontomu.ca Before her writing career, Cohen worked as media buyer at an ad agency, art gallery manager, illustrator, proofreader, decorative painter and editor.Tish Cohen, fromyourdesks.com, August 16, 2010
Writing Cohen is well known for her fast pace writing. Her children's book The Invisible Rules of the Zoë Lama became a bestseller in Canada in 2007. Her novel Town house was a 2008 finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize' Best First Book Award (Canada and Caribbean region).Tish Cohen, Biography, bookreporter.comEntertainment: Ondaatje among Canadians vying for Commonwealth Writers' Prize, CBC.ca, Februar 14, 2008 The right for making her novel Town House into a movie were bought by Ridley Scott's fim production company and optioned by Fox 2000 in 2005.Vit Wagner: Author ready to bring her book to the big screen: Tish Cohen has had loads of time to imagine a dream cast for the movie version of her popular debut novel Town House., Toronto Star, August 19, 2007: "Fox 2000 optioned the book back in 2005, even before a publisher picked it up." It was also translated into German and Italien and published as Super Agoraphobietherapie in Germany at Luchterhand Literaturverlag in 2009.Super Agoraphobietherapie, d-nb.info () Kirkus Reviews attributed to the novel „a constellation of characters whose idiosyncrasies make the family of Little Miss Sunshine look like Ozzie and Harriet.".Town House, kirkusreviews.com, March 1, 2007, published online May 20, 2010Publishers Weekly criticized the plot as "formulaic", but also described the novel as "terrifically written".Town House, Publishers Weekly, May 2007The Globe and Mail reviewed the novel as follows: "There's more than quirky charm and endearing oddness in the characters Cohen creates." It compared it with Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street: "Cohen's Lucie a North American near-relative of McCall Smith's Bertie" and praised this as an "incredible achievement in itself".T. F. Rigelhof: The power of art, times three, The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2007 The Toronto Star recommend the novel as one of four current canlit books for hot summer and described it as "Comic novel about an agoraphobe whose life begins to unravel."Hot summer reading tips: Current Beach Reads, Toronto Star, Juni 24, 2007
The novel Inside Out Girl was a Globe and Mail bestseller in 2009.News Flash, February 8, Inside Out Girl, thedebutanteball.com, February 8, 2009 Allison Burnett signed an agreement to adapt the novel Inside Out Girl into a movie in August 2009.Cat Parker Allison Burnett Set for Inside Out Girl: Adapting Tish Cohen's novel centered on a romance between single parents., movieweb.com, August 26, 2009
The novel The Truth About Delilah Blue, which deals with a young woman with an old father with Alzheimer's disease and an absent mother, was recommended as one of 10 summer reads by Vit Wagner of Toronto Star in 2010.Vit Wagner: Summer reads: 10 books worth a read this summer, Toronto Star, June 25, 2010 Cynthia MacDonald reviewed this novel for The Globe and Mail in June 2010 and considered it as "the summer's first terrific beach read".Cynthia MacDonald: Review: The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen, The Globe and Mail, June 11, 2010
For Tish Cohen's novel "The Search Angel", whose topic is adoption,Rosemary Counter: BOOK REVIEW: Tish Cohen’s new novel an accomplished look at adoption, theglobeandmail.com, Juli 5, 2013 the National Post attributed a "story telling talent" to the author in June 2013.Book Review: The Search Angel, by Tish Cohen, nationalpost.com, June 21, 2013
Cohen and Barbara Fogler wrote the screenplay for Sheila McCarthys short film Russet Season which premiered at Toronto Jewish Film Festival in 2017.RUSSET SEASON, CANADA 2016, 9 MIN, DIRECTOR: SHEILA MCCARTH. PDF, p. 46 at tjff.comRusset Season, Credits, Vimeo
Personal life Cohen is married to a lawyer and has two children.Kathryn Kates: A flair for fiction, real-life decor: Tish Cohen will soon see her novel Town House made into a movie by a production company headed by Ridley Scott, director of films such as Gladiator, Alien and Blade Runner., Toronto Star, September 1, 2007
Bibliography Novels 2007: Town House, Harper Perennial, New York, 2009: Tish Cohen: Super Agoraphobietherapie, 2009, Luchterhand-Literaturverlag, (translated into German by Martin Ruben Becker) 2008: Inside Out Girl, Harper Perennial, New York, 2010: The Truth About Delilah Blue, Harper Perennial, New York, 2013: The Search Angel, HarperCollins, New York, 2019: The Summer We Lost Her aka Little Green, Gallery Books, New York,
Children's books 2007: The Invisible Rules of the Zoë Lama, Dutton Children's Books, 2008: The One and Only Zoë Lama, Dutton Children's Books, 2009: Little Black Lies, Egmont, New York, 2011: Switch, Egmont, New York,
References
External links Tish Cohen at HarperCollins