Rhea Kohan
{{short description|American writer and novelist}}
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Rhea Kohan (née Arnold) is an American writer,{{cite web | url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/rhea_kohan_the_hollywood_mother_behind_weeds_and_will_and_grace_20110508 | title=Rhea Kohan: The Hollywood Mother behind 'Weeds' and 'Will and Grace' | publisher=TRIBE Media Corp. | work=Jewish Journal (JewishJournal.com) | date=May 8, 2011 | accessdate=September 9, 2014 | author=Berrin, Danielle}} author of the novels Save Me a Seat (1979) and Hand-Me-Downs (1980).
Biography
Born Rhea Arnold, Kohan grew up in a traditional Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite book|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/la_woman/article/queen_of_laughter_20030328 |title=Queen of Laughter |publisher=Jewish Journal |date=March 27, 2003 |first=Michael |last=Aushenker |accessdate=November 15, 2014 }}{{cite news|last1=Aushenker|first1=Michael|title=Queen of Laughter: Rhea Kohan reigns as mistress of ceremonies at Jewish functions in Los Angeles |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/la_woman/article/queen_of_laughter_20030328| accessdate=8 August 2014|work=Jewish Journal|date=27 March 2003}} Her mother was a homemaker and her father was a school principal who moonlighted as head of the local yeshiva.{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/mothers_day/article/rhea_kohan_no_one_spits_in_her_kids_kasha_20110503 |title=Rhea Kohan: No one spits in her kids' Kasha |publisher=Jewish Journal |date=May 3, 2011 |first=Danielle |last=Berrin |accessdate=November 15, 2014 }} She studied chemistry in college.
She is the wife of Emmy award-winning writer, producer, and composer, Buz Kohan, and mother of twins Jono and David, and Jenji Kohan.
Published works
- {{cite book |ref=none |title=Save Me a Seat |first=Rhea |last=Kohan |publisher=HarperCollins |year=1979 |isbn=978-0060124281 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/savemeseatnovel00koha }}
- {{cite book |ref=none|title=Hand-Me-Downs |first=Rhea |last=Kohan |publisher=Random House |year=1980 |isbn=978-0394511610 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1207073}}
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American women novelists
Category:American television writers
Category:American women television writers
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Category:Novelists from New York City
Category:Jewish American novelists
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:Screenwriters from New York (state)
Category:21st-century American Jews
Category:21st-century American women
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