About Barbara Cohen:
Barbara Cohen was an American Jewish author of children's literature. She wrote more than thirty books in range of genres, from picture books (The Carp in the Bathtub) 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, 1982).