CHICAGO -- Rich Cohen was walking down State Street on a recent rainy morning and he was not alone, though he appeared to be. “I feel like I hear my father’s voice all the time as I am walking around, especially when I am back in Chicago,” he said.
Though he has long lived and written elsewhere, Cohen is arguably the most prolific and successful Chicago nonfiction writer of this era, his work deeply rooted in Glencoe, the place where he was born and raised.
He has written books about the Bears (“Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football”), Cubs (“The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse”) and Chess Records (“The Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll”). He has also written books about the Rolling Stones (“The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones”); cowrote Jerry Weintraub’s biography (“When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man”); and written for magazines, television and more books.
