Richard P. Brickner

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Richard P. Brickner (May 14, 1933 – May 12, 2006) was an American novelist, memoirist and critic. Born in Manhattan, he began college at Middlebury in 1951 but a traffic accident in 1953 left him paralyzed. He finished his degree at Columbia University in 1957. His first novel, The Broken Year (1962), drew on his injury and was later turned into a television episode of Alcoa Premiere. He wrote several other books, including Bringing Down the House (1971), Tickets (1981), After She Left (1988) and the memoir My Second Twenty Years: An Unexpected Life (1976).

Brickner also worked as an editor for Doubleday, taught at the New School for Social Research and City College of New York, and contributed to The New York Review of Books. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983 and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Brickner died in Manhattan at age 72.