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David Oliver Cohen (born June 9, 1980) is an American writer, actor and entrepreneur based in New York City. He is one of the authors of the White Girl Problems book series, and a founder of Swish Beverages.

Cohen grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. He attended New York University, where he studied acting.

In 2010, Cohen, his brother Tanner Cohen and Lara Schoenhals created a Twitter account called White Girl Problems, writing under the pseudonym Babe Walker, a fictional 20-something socialite. They signed a deal to turn the Twitter feed into a book series, with the first novel, White Girl Problems, published in 2012 under the pen name Babe Walker. It became a New York Times Best Seller the following month. The follow-up, Psychos, was published in 2014, and American Babe, the final novel in the trilogy, was published in 2016. The film rights to White Girl Problems were purchased by Lionsgate in 2013. In 2016, it was announced that the film was in development, to be directed by Lauren Palmigiano and produced by Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman, and to star Danielle Macdonald.