Author Biography
Bruce Jay Friedman lives in New York City. A novelist, short story writer, playwright, memoirist, and screenwriter, he is the author of nineteen books, includingStern(1962), A Mother s Kisses(1964), The Lonely Guy s Book of Life(1978), andLucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir(2011). His best-known works of stage and screen include the off-Broadway hitSteambath(1970) and the screenplays forStir Crazy(1980) andSplash(1984), the latter of which received an Academy Award nomination. As editor of the anthologyBlack Humor(1965), Friedman helped popularize the distinctive literary style of that name in the United States and is widely regarded as one of its finest practitioners. According to theNew York Times, his prose is a pure pleasure machine.
