Bruce Jay Friedman

Bruce Jay Friedman (born April 26, 1930, New York, New York) is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

Friedman was born to a Jewish family and raised in the Bronx, the son of Irving and Mollie (Liebowitz) Friedman. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School.

In 1954, Friedman worked for many of the era's famous men's magazines through Magazine Management Company. Friedman ended up as an executive editor in charge of the magazines Men (not the present magazine of the same title), Male, and Man's World.

In 1962, Friedman published Stern, the first of his eight novels. In 1988, he appeared in Woody Allen's film Another Woman.His collection of short fiction, Three Balconies, appeared in September 2008, from Biblioasis, who also published his 2011 memoir Lucky Bruce. A collection of four plays [Scuba Duba, Steambath, Sardines and The Trial], in a collection titled "3.1 Plays," was published in January 2012 by Leaping Lion Books.

• Stern (1962)
• A Mother's Kisses (1964)
• The Dick (1970)
• About Harry Towns (1974)
• Tokyo Woes (1985)
• The Current Climate (1989)
• A Father's Kisses (1996)
• Violencia!: A Musical Novel (2002)

• Black Angels: Stories (1966)
• Far From the City of Class (1966)
• Black Humor (1969) (Editor)
• Let's Hear It for a Beautiful Guy (1985)
• The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman (2000)
• Sexual Pensees (with Andre Barbe) (2006)
• Three Balconies: Stories and a Novella (2008)

• The Heartbreak Kid (1972) (screenplay by Neil Simon) (based on the Short Story "A Change of Plan")
• The Ted Bessell Show (1973) (TV)
• Fore Play (1975) (Story)
• Stir Crazy (1980)
• Doctor Detroit (with Robert Boris and Carl Gottlieb) (1983)
• Splash (with Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) (1984)
• The Lonely Guy (1984) (screenplay by Neil Simon, Ed. Weinberger and Stan Daniels) (Based on his book "The Lonely Guy's Book of Life")
• Brazzaville Teen-Ager (2013) (screenplay with Michael Cera) (Based on the short story)

• Scuba Duba (1967)
• Steambath (1970)
• Have You Spoken to Any Jews Lately? (1995)
• 3.1 Plays (2012)

• The Rascal's Guide (editor and contributor) (1959)
• The Lonely Guy's Book of Life (1978)
• Even The Rhinos Were Nymphos (2000)
• The Slightly Older Guy (2001)
• Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir (2011)