Author Rich Cohen writes about his father’s life and adventures in ‘World’s Greatest Negotiator’

CHICAGO -- Rich Cohen was walking down State Street on a recent rainy morning and he was not alone, though he appeared to be. “I feel like I hear my father’s voice all the time as I am walking around, especially when I am back in Chicago,” he said.

Though he has long lived and written elsewhere, Cohen is arguably the most prolific and successful Chicago nonfiction writer of this era, his work deeply rooted in Glencoe, the place where he was born and raised.

He has written books about the Bears (“Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football”), Cubs (“The Chicago