Paula Marantz Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is the author of the novels, "Jane Austen in Boca, Jane Austen in Scarsdale, " and "Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan", and four scholarly works of nonfiction, including "Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth" and "The Daughter as Reader: Encounters Between Literature and Life". She lives in Moorestown, New Jersey, with her husband and two children.