BIOGRAPHY

 The author of The Best Assassination in the Nation and Past Imperfect, Joshua Cohen is the other other-Josh-Cohen. He grew up in San Antonio and attended the University of Texas both as an undergraduate and for law school. For close to 40 years, he has practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, his original hometown. Josh began writing in the mid-2010s, when the youngest of his three children left for college.

 Josh has always been a big fan of both Film Noir and crime and detective fiction from the Forties and Fifties. He came to realize that of all the private eyes he’d come across in these media, practically none haled from Cleveland, and even fewer were Jewish. To fill the void, Josh created Benjamin Gold, the protagonist in his two novels. Gold does his sleuthing in Cleveland during the 1950s. He’s not as tough or as glib as Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe, but he’s a little more sensitive, and definitely more neurotic.

 Josh still has his day job as an attorney. His small firm focuses its practice on class actions, employment law, professional malpractice, and other complex civil litigation. A documentary called Cleveland vs. Wall Street was made about one of Josh’s cases and debuted at the Cannes International Film Festival. It was seen by practically no one in the U.S. but had a big following in France and Switzerland.

 Josh lives in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights with his wife, Marci. He is currently at work on his third novel.