Richard P. Brickner | |
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Born | Manhattan, New York, U.S. | May 14, 1933
Died | May 12, 2006 Manhattan, New York, U.S. | (aged 72)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Middlebury College Columbia University (BA) |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1983) |
Richard P. Brickner (May 14, 1933 – May 12, 2006) was an American novelist, memoirist and critic.[1]
Brickner was born in Manhattan on May 14, 1933. He attended Middlebury College from 1951 to 1953, when a traffic accident left him paralyzed. He resumed his education at Columbia University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1957.[1][2]
Brickner's first novel, The Broken Year (1962), was a fictional account of his injury, and was adapted as an episode of Alcoa Premiere.[1] His other works included the novels Bringing Down the House (1971), Tickets (1981), After She Left (1988) and the memoir My Second Twenty Years: An Unexpected Life (1976).[1][3]
Brickner was also an editor of Doubleday, taught at the New School for Social Research and at City College of New York, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books.[1]
He was the recipient of a 1983 Guggenheim Fellowship.[4] He also received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.[5]
Brickner died at 72 on May 12, 2006, in Manhattan.[1]