Richard P. Brickner (May 14, 1933 – May 12, 2006) was an American novelist, memoirist and critic.

Biography

Brickner was born in Manhattan on May 14, 1933. He attended

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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. Brickner's first novel, ''The Broken Year'' (1962), was a fictional account of his injury, and was adapted as an episode of '' Alcoa Premiere''. 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). Brickner was also an editor of Doubleday, taught at the

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and at

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, and a contributor to '' The New York Review of Books''. He was the recipient of a 1983

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. He also received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Brickner died at 72 on May 12, 2006, in Manhattan.

References

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