Richard A Cohen (born 9 May 1947) is a retired British fencer who competed at three Olympic Games[1] and the author of four books, Making History, The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past, Chasing the Sun, the story of man's relationship to that star, How to Write Like Tolstoy, A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers, and By the Sword, a history of sword fighting.

[citation needed] He won the national veteran saber championships a record fourteen times.

1 bestseller Leadership by Rudy Giuliani, all seven books by Madeleine Albright, David Boies' Courting Justice, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Malcolm X by Manning Marable.

Cohen has two sons and a daughter and lives in New York City with his wife Kathy Robbins, a literary agent.

In 2010 father (for Northern Ireland) and daughter (for England) competed in the same Commonwealth championships, the first father and daughter to do so, Cohen at age 63 coming 12th in the saber and winning the veterans saber (over 40), a first gold medal for Northern Ireland in Commonwealth fencing.