Bruce Jay Friedman was born in New York City on 26 April 1930 and was reared in the Bronx. He became interested in writing while attending DeWitt Clinton High School, where he wrote a column for The C...
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Author of four novels, two collections of short stories, a book of satiric essays, and many articles, Bruce Jay Friedman gained recognition in the 1960s as a seriocomic writer. Labeled a black humoris...
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Bruce Jay Friedman opened his Collected Short Fiction (1995) with an anecdotal reference to his mother's confession of dropping the young author on his head when he was two years old, thereby accounti...
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