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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 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.

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 New School for Social Research and at City College of New York, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books.

He was the recipient of a 1983 Guggenheim Fellowship. He also received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

Brickner died at 72 on May 12, 2006, in Manhattan.

References

1. ^ Fox, Margalit (2006-05-21). "Richard P. Brickner, Novelist and Memoirist, Is Dead at 72". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
2. "Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
3. "Books of The Times". The New York Times. 1976-09-10. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
4. Marx, Alex. "Richard P. Brickner". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
5. "Literature Fellowships". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-02.

• 1933 births
• 2006 deaths
• Columbia College (New York) alumni
• Middlebury College alumni
• The New School faculty
• City College of New York faculty
• 20th-century American writers
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellows