When he was 19, Cohen met Priscilla Pardridge (later known as Eden Gray) at a poetry reading at the literary Dil Pickle Club.
Gray was a Broadway actress, radio personality, publisher and author of several books on Tarot cards and other subjects.
After several dates, they agreed to move separately to NYC and then get married so that Gray could pursue a career as a Broadway actress.
Gray found work as an artists’ model in silent films (then being made in Brooklyn), before succeeding on Broadway.
The couple had a son, Peter Gray Cohen (November 12, 1925 – September 7, 2014) who was a painter, muralist and left wing activist.
John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson and other notable American writers were also on this committee and contributed to the written report produced by Dreiser.
Cohen represented the American League for a Free Palestine at the first United Nations Conference in San Francisco in 1945.
(A book by Cohen, The Fabulous world of Horace Liveright, was never published and only exists in manuscript form.)