Jon Cohen (writer)

Jon Cohen is an American novelist and screenwriter. As a screenwriter he is best known for his co-writing contribution to the Steven Spielberg-directed film Minority Report (2002).^[1]

A native of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, Cohen worked as a critical care nurse in Philadelphia before becoming a writer. He published four books: Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger (1991), The Man in the Window (first published in 1992 and then reissued 2013 by Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries^[2]), Dentist Man (1993), and Harry's Trees (2018). He received a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1991.^[3] In 2002, he won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for his work on Minority Report, sharing the award with co-writer Scott Frank.