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Bruce Jay Friedman

Bruce Jay Friedman

Bruce Jay Friedman (1930-2020) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

Friedman had three children with his first wife, actress and teacher Ginger Howard, with whom he split in 1978: writer, musician Josh Alan Friedman, cartoonist Drew Friedman, and photographer Kipp Friedman. He had one daughter—writer Molly Friedman—with his second wife, Patricia J. O’Donohue.

The New York Times praised his writing for “making dark but giggle-inducing sport of the deep, if not pathological, insecurities of his white, male, middle-class and often Jewish protagonists.”

Bibliography

BOOKS:
Stern (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962; London: Deutsch, 1963);
Far From the City of Class, and Other Stories (New York: Frommer-Pasmantier, 1963);
A Mother’s Kisses (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964; London: Cape, 1965);
Black Angels (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966; London: Cape, 1967);
Scuba Duba; A Tense Comedy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968);
The Dick (New York; Knopf, 1970; London: Cape, 1971);
Steambath (New York; Knopf, 1971);
About Harry Towns (New York, 1974; London: Cape, 1975);
The Lonely Guys Book of Life (New York; McGraw-Hill, 1978);
Let’s Hear It for a Beautiful Guy, and Other Works of Short Fiction (New York: Fine,
1984, 1984);
Tokyo Woes (New York: Fine, 1985; London: Abacus, 1986);
The Current Climate (New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1989);
The Slightly Older Guy (New York; Simon & Schuster, 1995);
The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman (New York; Fine, 1995);
A Father’s Kisses (New York; Fine, 1996);
Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos: Collected Nonfiction (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2000).

PLAY PRODUCTIONS:
23 Pat O’Brien Movies (one-act), produced on a triple bill with The Floor, by May
Swenson, and Miss Pete, by Andrew Glaze, New York, American Place Theatre, 11 May 1966;
Scuba Duba: A Tense Comedy, New York, New Theatre, 10 October 1967;
A Mother’s Kisses, New Haven, 21 September 1968;
Steambath, New York, Truck and Warehouse Theatre, June 1970;
First Offenders, with Jacques Levy, New York, 1973;
A Foot in the Door, New York, American Place Theatre,1979;
Have You Spoken to Any Jews Lately? New York, American Jewish Theatre, 1995.

PRODUCED SCRIPTS:
Stir Crazy, motion picture, Columbia, 1980;
Doctor Detroit, by Friedman, Carl Gottlieb, and Robert Borris, motion picture, Universal, 1983;
The Lonely Guy, motion picture, Universal, 1984;
Splash!, by Friedman, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel, motion picture, Buena Vista, 1984.

SELECTED PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS- UNCOLLECTED:
“Pebble in his shoe,” Esquire, 126 (July 1996); 90-93
“Fit as a Fiddle,” TriQuarterly, 103 (Fall 1998); 120-124.