Lloyd Edward Cotsen

Lloyd Cotsen died on May 8, 2017. Cotsen was president, chief executive, and chairman of the Neutrogena Corporation. He was a prolific philanthropist and collector of illustrated children’s books, many of them rare items dating to the fourteenth century. Over six decades, he amassed more than forty thousand titles. He donated his collection to the Firestone Library at his alma mater, Princeton University, where it became the cornerstone of the Cotsen Children’s Library. He was active in numerous civic and charitable organizations in Los Angeles and served on the boards of various AAS supporters and peer institutions, such as the Ahmanson Foundation and the Huntington Library.