Career
As a screenwriter he is best known for his co-writing contribution to the Steven Spielberg-directed film Minority Report (2002). A native of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, Cohen worked as a critical care nurse in Philadelphia before becoming a writer He published three books: Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger (1991), The Manitoba in the Window (1992), and Dentist Manitoba (1993).
He received a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1991.
