Bruce Jay Friedman

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

Raised in the Bronx by Irving and Mollie (Liebowitz) Friedman, Bruce Jay Friedman graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. He then 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 (now an acting coach and writer) Ginger Howard. 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. In 1988, he appeared in a film by Woody Allen, "Another Woman." His latest collection of short fiction, Three Balconies, appeared in September 2008, from Biblioasis.

Personal life

Friedman had three children with wife Ginger Howard: writer, musician Josh Alan Friedman, cartoonist Drew Friedman, and photographer Kipp Friedman. He has one daughter—writer Molly Friedman—with second wife Patricia J. O'Donohue. Friedman currently resides in New York City.

Bibliography

Novels

• A Father's Kisses (1996)
• The Current Climate (1989)
• Tokyo Woes (1985)
• About Harry Towns (1974)
• The Dick (1970)
• A Mother's Kisses (1964)
• Stern (1962) - named by John Kennedy Toole, author of A Confederacy of Dunces, as his favourite modern novel.
• Violencia!: A Musical Novel (2002)

Short fiction

• 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
• Sexual Pensees
• Three Balconies: Stories and a Novella (2008)
• A Change of Plan (filmed as The Heartbreak Kid)

For the screen

• Splash
• The Lonely Guy
• Doctor Detroit
• Stir Crazy
• Fore Play
• Steambath (DVD of the 1973 PBS broadcast)
• The Heartbreak Kid

For the stage

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

Non-fiction

• "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's Book of Life (filmed as The Lonely Guy)
• The Slightly Older Guy
• Even The Rhinos Were Nymphos
• Sexual Pensees (with Andre Barbe)
• Sohn, Amy (2008). "Bruce Jay Friedman [interview]". The Believer. 6 (8): 57–64. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |day= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

External links

• Audio: Bruce Jay Friedman at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2005
• Bruce Jay Friedman at IMDb
• Bruce Jay Friedman at AllMovie