Author
Gertrude Friedberg
2 standalones · 2 works in the catalog
1908–1989 · New York City, New York, USA
Gertrude Friedberg (1908-1989), born Gertrude Tonkonogy in Brooklyn, was an American playwright and writer. After graduating from Barnard College, she made her professional debut with the Broadway comedy Three Cornered Moon, which opened in 1933 starring Ruth Gordon and was filmed the same year with Claudette Colbert. She married physician Charles K. Friedberg and was credited under his name for the rest of her career, including her second play, Town House, a 1948 comedy about the postwar housing shortage adapted from John Cheever's New Yorker stories and directed by George S. Kaufman. From the 1950s Friedberg also wrote short stories, several with science fiction themes, for magazines including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Esquire. Her only novel, The Revolving Boy, published in 1966, has been called a minor classic of the field. She died in Manhattan in 1989.
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