Bruce Jay Friedman

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Bruce Jay Friedman (born April 26, 1930) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.

Raised in the Bronx by Irving and Molly (Liebowitz) Friedman, Bruce attended the University of Missouri as a journalism major then served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1953. In 1954, he married the model Ginger Howard, who is now an acting coach and writer. In the same year, Friedman worked for many of the era's famous men's magazines through Magazine Management Company. Friedman ended up as an executive editor in charge of the magazines Men (not the present magazine of the same title), Male, and Man's World.

In 1962, Friedman published Stern, the first of his eight novels.

Friedman is the father of the writer and musician Josh Alan Friedman, the cartoonist Drew Friedman, Kipp Friedman, and Molly Friedman. Friedman currently resides in New York City; he has divorced Ginger Friedman and is now married to the educator Patricia J. O'Donohue.

Contents

  • A Father's Kisses
  • The Current Climate
  • Tokyo Woes
  • About Harry Towns
  • The Dick
  • A Mother's Kisses
  • Stern
  • Violencia!: A Musical Novel

  • Let's Hear It for a Beautiful Guy
  • Black Angels
  • Far from the City of Class
  • Black Humor: Anthology
  • The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman

  • Scuba Duba
  • Steambath
  • Have You Spoken to Any Jews Lately?

  • "The Man They Threw Out of Jets" and a conversation with the author in "New sounds in American fiction" editor Gordon Lish (1969)
  • The Lonely Guy
  • The Slightly Older Guy
  • Even The Rhinos Were Nymphos
  • Sexual Pensees (with Andre Barbe)

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