Richard Friedenberg Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the NATO Show West Screenwriter of the Year award at the 1993 ShoWest Convention for "A River Runs Through It․"
• The Village Voice published the journal he wrote while touring Somalia for the United Nations
• After studying English literature at the University of Michigan, he went to the Sorbonne in Paris to complete his graduate work
• Worked as a writer and director for an educational film company in Boston after graduating from college
• Directed television movies and low budget films at an educational film company in Salt Lake City for a time, the second such company he worked for
• Began a professional association with producer Jake Eberts with his award-winning screen adaptation for "A River Runs Through It․"
• Though he was born in New York, he was raised in Boston