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Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (November 1, 1944 – June 27, 2024) [a] was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for Texas Monthly, who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.
Julissa Ferreras – New York City Council Member, Finance Committee chair; Richard Feynman – theoretical physicist; recipient 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics; Barbie Ferreira – actress ; Harvey Fierstein – actor and playwright; Hamilton Fish – Governor of New York and U.S. Secretary of State; Mickey Fisher (1904/05–1963) – basketball coach
In 2015, he wrote the essay "War Is Beautiful, They Say" for the book War is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict by David Shields. This essay described the painterly influences and inspirations behind several war photographs published by The New York Times. [9]
Friedman was one of three children born to Morris S. Friedman (d. 2005), [1] a rabbi, [2] and Addi Friedman, a high school English teacher. [3] [4] He grew up in North Woodmere, New York. [1] [5] His father was the rabbi of Temple Hillel, a Conservative synagogue in North Woodmere, and served as the head of the New York Board of Rabbis. [1] [6]
The New York Times, New York, NY 2007. 2 panels 30" x 150" each installed in the 15th floor conference center [20] Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist, 2007 [9] Type Sculpture: Commission, 43 x 51 inches (1,300 mm), Installed in their home. Board room of Morgan Stanley, New York, NY. Type Sculpture completed 2008. Board room Knight ...
Early in her career, Friedman worked for investment bankers in Chicago, New York, London and Beirut. [4] In 1988, Friedman, who with her family, moved to the Washington D. C. area, started teaching privately in “a course she devised on world cultures and geography.”
Greta Friedman (née Grete Zimmer; June 5, 1924 – September 8, 2016) was an Austrian-born American who was photographed being grabbed and kissed by Navy sailor George Mendonsa (1923–2019 [1]) in the iconic V-J Day in Times Square photograph of 1945 by Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. [2]
Bernard Harper Friedman (July 27, 1926 – January 4, 2011), better known by his initials, "B. H.," or known as Bob to his friends [1] was an American author and art critic who wrote biographies of Jackson Pollock and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a number of novels that combined his experiences in the worlds of art and business, and an autobiographical account of his use of psychedelic drugs ...