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Bruce Jay Friedman

Bruce Jay Friedman (1930-2020), a novelist, short story writer, playwright, memoirist, and screenwriter, was the author of nineteen books, including Stern and Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir. His last collection of short fiction is The Peace Process. He died at age 90 on June 3, 2020.

  • FICTION
    Mr. Siegel

    Tablet Original Fiction: A love story at Murder Inc.

    byBruce Jay Friedman
  • Stir Crazy, 1980.
    Stir Crazy, 1980.
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    When Gene Wilder Went ‘Stir Crazy’

    The writer of the classic Pryor-Wilder jailbreak comedy remembers ‘a serious actor and a brilliant clown’

    byBruce Jay Friedman
  • Untitled (3 Crossing Street), South Miami Beach, 1982-1985
    Untitled (3 Crossing Street), South Miami Beach, 1982-1985
    FICTION
    A Holiday Fable

    Tablet Original Fiction for Passover: Evicted from Teaneck, what exodus awaits?

    byBruce Jay Friedman
  • Bruce Jay Friedman in the 1950s.
    Bruce Jay Friedman in the 1950s.
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    Caracas Retreat

    Junketing to South America in the late 1960s with Robert Lowell, a wealthy Venezuelan, and Alfred Kazin. An excerpt from the forthcoming memoir Lucky Bruce.

    byBruce Jay Friedman
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    A Change of Plan

    The short story that became ‘The Heartbreak Kid’

    byBruce Jay Friedman
  • Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd in ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ (1972)
    Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd in ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ (1972)
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    And Now, a Major Motion Picture!

    What happens to a writer when Hollywood calls?

    byBruce Jay Friedman
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    A Door Opens

    The author of ‘Stern’ remembers his heady first days on the literary scene

    byBruce Jay Friedman
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