Octavus Roy Cohen
1891
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1959
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: American English
educated at: Clemson University, Porter-Gaud School
occupation: novelist, playwright, poet lawyer, lawyer, screenwriter, humorist, short story writer, crime fiction writer
Octavus Roy Cohen (1891–1959) was an early 20th-century American writer specializing in ethnic comedies. His dialect comedy stories about African Americans gained popularity after being published in the Saturday Evening Post and were adapted into a series of short films by Al Christie featuring actors Charles Olden, Spencer Williams Jr., Evelyn Preer, and Edward Thompson. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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