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Bruce Jay Friedman

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Born: April 25 1930

American comic author whose dark, mocking humour and social criticism was directed at the concerns and behaviour of American Jews.

After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1951 with a B.A. in journalism and serving in the U.S. Air Force for two years, Friedman worked in publishing for several years before achieving success with his first novel, Stern . The title character is a luckless descendent of the biblical Job, unable to assimilate into mainstream American life. Virtually all of Friedman's works are a variation on this theme; most of his characters are Jewish by birth, but they feel alienated from both Jewish and American culture. His works are also noted for focusing on absurd characters and situations.
-Encyclopædia Britannica

Bruce Jay Friedman

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Born: April 25 1930

American comic author whose dark, mocking humour and social criticism was directed at the concerns and behaviour of American Jews.

After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1951 with a B.A. in journalism and serving in the U.S. Air Force for two years, Friedman worked in publishing for several years before achieving success with his first novel, Stern . The title character is a luckless descendent of the biblical Job, unable to assimilate into mainstream American life. Virtually all of Friedman's works are a variation on this theme; most of his characters are Jewish by birth, but they feel alienated from both Jewish and American culture. His works are also noted for focusing on absurd characters and situations.
-Encyclopædia Britannica

Books from Bruce Jay Friedman

Stern

3.7/5 ( ratings)

No, But I Saw the Movie: The Best Short Stories Ever Made Into Film

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2014 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #711)

3.5/5 ( ratings)

It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Steambath; a play

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Tokyo Woes

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Black Humor

The Peace Process: A Novella and Stories

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Violencia!: A Musical Novel

3.2/5 ( ratings)

"Pardon Me, Sir, But Is My Eye Hurting Your Elbow?"

The Lonely Guy and the Slightly Older Guy

4.5/5 ( ratings)

About Harry Towns

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Let's Hear It for a Beautiful Guy: And Other Works of Short Fiction

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Dick: A Novel

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2014

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Splash

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir of an American Cultural Icon

4.5/5 ( ratings)