
Bruce Jay Friedman was born in the Bronx, New York. He was a journalism major at the University of Missouri. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1953. In 1954, he married Ginger Howard. In the 1950s he worked for several famous men's magazines. He eventually moved on to become executive editor in charge of the magazines Men (not the present magazine of the same title), Male, and Man's World. In 1962 his first novel, Stern, was published. He went on to produce eight novels in total.

Twenty Years of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1970
ISBN 9780425019238
Nelson Algren's Book of Lonesome Monsters
1964

"Pardon Me, Sir, But Is My Eye Hurting Your Elbow?"
1968

Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s
2013
ISBN 9780988462106
No, But I Saw the Movie: The Best Short Stories Ever Made Into Film
1989
ISBN 9780140110906
Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2014
2014
He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos: Classic Men's Adventure Magazine Stories
2013