Richard P. Brickner

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]