Edward CohenEdward Cohen, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, was a writer/producer/director for Mississippi ETV (The Islander about Walter Anderson, and other PBS documentaries) and later an attorney for the Wise-Carter firm. His first book, The Peddler's Grandso, Growing up Jewish in Mississippi, was published initially by University Press of Mississippi and later by Bantam. It won the MLA and MIAL Awards for non-fiction. Edward and his wife Kathy left Mississippi in 1995 to go to Los Angeles, Calif., to write screenplays. Blood Relations debuted as a screenplay, and the vice president of Bruckheimer Films tried to convince Disney to produce it. The couple began teaching English as a Second Language to Latino adults and adapted to their culture, language and music. The Cohens left L.A. in 2009 to move to Ecuador. Read More Read Less