Barbara Cohen (1932–1992) was an American author of children's literature.
Cohen graduated from Barnard College (BA, 1954) and from Rutgers University (MA, 1957).
She taught high school English in several cities in New Jersey, and wrote a long-running newspaper column entitled "Books and Things."
She and her husband Gene had three daughters, Leah, Sara, and Rebecca.
[2] She wrote more than thirty books in a range of genres, from picture books (The Carp in the Bathtub, 1972) to retellings of Biblical stories (e.g., The Binding of Isaac, 1978; David, 1995) to classical literature (Four Canterbury Tales, 1987) to young adult dystopias (Unicorns in the Rain, 1980).