Alan H. Friedman

Alan H. Friedman is a novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. He also taught English and creative writing as a professor at Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he served as Director of the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English. He reviewed fiction for the New York Times Book Review from 1978 to 1998. He was nominated for the National Book Award in 1973^[1] for his novel Hermaphrodeity.^[2][3]

Alan H. Friedman was born January 4, 1928 in Brooklyn, NY. He received a B.A. in English from Harvard University in 1949, an M.A. in English from Columbia University in 1950, and a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964.

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