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Roy Cohn

Roy Cohn was an American and Israeli lawyer, writer, biographer, businessperson, politician and jurist (1927–1986). He was born at New York City and died at Bethesda.

Also recorded as Roy Marcus Cohn.

Roy Cohn in brief

Born
1927
Died
1986
Known for
lawyer, writer, biographer, businessperson, politician and jurist
Place of birth
New York City
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Catalogued works

3 works under this name are catalogued by Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1992 to 2022.

Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes / by Tony Kushner., dated 2007, held by Wellcome Collection. Angels in America by Tony Kushner : British premiere / Royal National Theatre., dated [1992], held by Wellcome Collection. Bad gays : a homosexual history / Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller., dated 2022, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

9 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Cohn, Roy, Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, 2009. Cohn, Roy (20 February 1927–02 August 1986), anti-Communist crusader, powerbroker, and attorney, American National Biography Online, 2000. Undertaking Roy Cohn, Grand Street, 1988. 24. Roy Cohn as Torquemada, Owen Lattimore and the “Loss” of China, 1992. Cohn, Roy M. (1927–1986), Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, 2003. Il lavoro dell’attore ovvero Elio e «la rappresentazione nascosta», Mimesis Journal, 2017. Laura Mariani, L'America di Elio De Capitani. Interpretare Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon, Mr Berlusconi, Antropologia e Teatro, 2017. Book Review: McCarthy, by Roy Cohn, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 1968. Queering the matrix? language and identity troubles in HIV/AIDS contexts, Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2012.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 32 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 16 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1927Roy Cohn born at New York City.
  2. 1986Roy Cohn died at Bethesda.
  3. 1992Angels in America by Tony Kushner : British premiere / Royal National Theatre. (Wellcome Collection).
  4. 2007Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes / by Tony Kushner. (Wellcome Collection).

Sources

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  1. 1.

    “Roy Cohn”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q942923: Roy Cohn

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