DC's Politics & Prose co-owner Carla Cohen dies

[October 12, 2010]  NEW YORK (AP) -- Carla Cohen, co-owner of the Washington independent bookstore that became a city institution and a key stop for writers of all political stripes, has died.

The bookstore, Politics and Prose, announced on its website that Cohen died Monday of cancer of the bile ducts. She was 74.

A former city planner and Congressional aide, Cohen founded the store in 1984 and had run it with co-owner Barbare Meade. In the past quarter century, Politics and Prose has become a key stop for political and literary figures promoting books, with Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice among those expected this fall.

A Baltimore native, Cohen is survived by David Cohen, her husband of 52 years; two children; two grandchildren; and her mother, 100-year-old Edith Furstenberg.

[Associated Press; By HILLEL ITALIE]

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