Richard P. Brickner (May 14, 1933 – May 12, 2006) was an American novelist, memoirist and critic. ^[1]

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. ^{[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]

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