Diana Cohen Conway

Background

Diana Cohen Conway was born on the 29th of May in Marshall, Missouri, United States. She is the daughter of Joseph who was an actor and teacher and Sara Roe who was a secretary.

Education

She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1964, then studied at New York University and received her master's degree in 1965, and in 1970 she became a Ph.D.

Career

During 1971-87, she worked at Anchorage College in Anchorage, Alaska, as a teacher of Spanish. She also worked at the University of Alaska in Anchorage as a professor of Spanish in 1987-1989.

Works

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• book

  • Northern Lights: A Hanukkah Story 1994
  • Darren's Work

Religion

She was a "cultural Jew."

Politics

She described herself as a bleeding-heart liberal.

Views

Quotations: “There are perhaps half a dozen books from before the time I learned to read that have stayed with me that way. All of them are still in print, which proves that quality endures and that children know quality when they see it."

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• "She doesn’t have great ambitions to make a career as a children’s writer. She just wants to write a one really good book, the kind of book someone reads to you when you’re very young and that you never forget. You’ll be walking along a city street and pass a bookstore, and there it is! The illustration on the cover just the way you remember it. The emotions inside as powerful as the first time you opened the book."

Interests

• Music & Bands

  folk songs

Connections

She married to Herbert Berkowitz on the 22nd of May 1966 (divorced in 1980).

Father:

Joseph Cohen

Mother:

Sara Roe Cohen

husband:

Herbert Berkowitz

Son:

Andrew Cohen

Son:

Jason Cohen