Paul A. Cohen passed away a couple of months ago. I learned of his death through Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s obituary, which led me to read A Path Twice Traveled.
I finished the book impressed by several aspects of scholarly life reflected in Cohen’s trajectory: the importance of mentorship; a constant attention to rigor and elegance, especially in confronting the weaknesses of one’s own work; and the pace of correspondence (and scholarship more broadly) in the era before email.
