Author:Octavus Roy Cohen
American author who became popular as a result of his stories printed in The Saturday Evening Post which concerned themselves with African-Americans. His works include humorous and detective novels, plays, and collections of short stories; Broadway plays and radio, film, and television scripts.
WorksEdit
- Love Can Be Dangerous (1915) IA
- The Other Woman (1917) IA
- Polished Ebony (1919) IA
- Come Seven (1920) IA
- Highly Colored (1921)
- Assorted Chocolates (1922)
- Jim Hanvey, Detective (1923) short stories
- Scarlet Woman (1923?)
- Shadow Light (1924) (external scan)
David Carroll booksEdit
- The Crimson Alibi (1919) hathi
- Gray Dusk (1920) IA
- Six Seconds of Darkness (1918) IA
- Midnight (Cohen) (1922) IA : PG : librivox
Works from periodicalsEdit
- "The Man of Ice," Munsey's Magazine, Aug 1915, (with Manning J. Rubin)
- "Thoroughly Feminine" Snappy Stories, 1916 Mar (ss)
- "Three's a Crowd" Green Book Magazine July 1916
- "Fame and Fortune" Green Book Magazine Aug 1916
- "To Escape" Adventure magazine, Oct 1916
- "The Mixed Quartette," Black Cat, Feb 1917
- "The Crack of the Whip" All-Story Weekly Mar 24 1917
- "One Damsel in Distress" All-Story Weekly, 1917 Apr (nvt)
- "Thirty-five Twenty-sevenths," Black Cat, May 1917
- "The Professional Affinity" (1917, Blue Book) (ss)
- "The Baboon's Sister" All-Story Weekly Jun 21, 1919
- "Follow Through," Munsey's Magazine, Mar 1921
- "Oft in the Silly Night" (1921, Saturday Evening Post) (nvt) (included in Assorted Chocolates)
- "Bird of Pray" (1921, Saturday Evening Post) (nvt) (included in Assorted Chocolates)
- "The Bent Twig" Everybody's, 1922 Sept (ss)
- "The Question Mark" Collier's Weekly, Feb 23 1924
- "Interlude " (1924 Nov, Everybody's) (nvt)
- "The Last White Line" (1925 Nov, Everybody's) (ss)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1928.
The longest-living author of these works died in 1959, so these works are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 63 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
