Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal Archive of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart.
He died in Los Angeles in 2016 and was secretly buried in Montreal a few days later..
He recorded more than a dozen music albums, and numerous tribute albums have celebrated his songs in various languages.
Over his long and productive career, he published two novels, The Favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966), and numerous books of poetry, including Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs (1993).
Born and educated in Montreal, Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies .
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) was a Canadian poet, singer-songwriter and novelist.
Images of rare concert footage and archival materials, including musical instruments, notebooks, lyrics and letters, are featured alongside photographs, drawings and digital art created by Cohen across several decades.
The first publication to present the holdings of the Leonard Cohen Family Trust, Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive immerses readers in the many facets of Cohen\'s creative life.
Together, they provide a rich visual road map to his evolution as a poet and songwriter.
Aware from an early age that he was destined to make a mark on this world, Cohen preserved an expansive collection of letters, journals, manuscripts, sketches and records.
The objects, papers and artifacts from Cohen\'s personal Archive provide fresh insight into the artist\'s creative pursuits and the arc of his career over six decades.
Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal Archive of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart
