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David Friedman

Born September 25, 1970· New York City, New York, USA

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Born David Friedman in Manhattan to a Jewish family with roots across Central and Eastern Europe, he earned a BA in English literature from Dartmouth, studied Irish literature at Trinity College Dublin, and completed an MFA in creative writing at UC Irvine. Early jobs as a club bouncer, high-school English teacher and radio DJ preceded his literary debut; his graduate thesis became the novel The 2…

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