Stephen Fried

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stephen Fried
Occupation	American Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jan 19, 1958(1958-01-19)
Age	66
Birthplace	Harrisburg
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Capricorn

Stephen Fried Biography

Stephen Fried is one of the most popular and richest American journalist who was born on January 19, 1958 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Fried was born in and grew up at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. As a youngster he was a part of Pinemere Camp in the Pocono Mountains. He attended the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and wrote and edited 34th Street, the university’s weekly publication. In college, he became part of a small group of writers, journalists, as well as editors, who were supported through Nora Magid, a Canadian-born editor and professor that Fried has described as an “one-woman journalism school.” The self-described “Nora-ites” — whose list includes best-selling author and editor David Borgenicht, ABC News producer and writer Joel Siegel, GQ contributing editor Lisa DePaulo and Eliot Kaplan the director of editorial talent of Hearst magazines — set up the Magid mentorship award in her Name in 2003. Fried wrote about Magid’s life eleven years ago in a piece in Philadelphia magazine, where the author recounted his experiences in her first Advanced Expository Writing class in 1977. He earned the degree of a B.A. with a major in international relations from University of Pennsylvania in 1979. University of Pennsylvania in 1979.

In 1993, he received the first National Magazine Award in the area of Special Interest for his role as one the authors on the Philadelphia story about the basic delights of living within and near the city. Fried’s essay, written by Fried about returning to fishing after a long time in absence, was later extended into an 1995 Philadelphia feature titled “Reeling in the Years” that was chosen as a standout story for the calendar year Best American Sports Stories.

Stephen Fried is an American investigative journalist, non-fiction author, essayist and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (Pocket), a biography of model Gia Carangi and her era, was published in 1993. He has since written Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (Bantam 1998), an investigation of medication safety and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex; The New Rabbi (Bantam 2002), which weaves the dramatic search for a new religious leader at one of the nation’s most influential houses of worship with a meditation on the author’s Jewish upbringing; Husbandry (Bantam 2007), a collection of essays on marriage and men; and Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time(Bantam 2010), the bestselling biography of restaurant and hotel entrepreneur Fred Harvey. In 2015, he co-authored the New York Times bestseller A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction with Congressman Patrick Kennedy.

Fried went on to publish three award-winning pieces about mental health care. “War of Remembrance” (Philadelphia, January 1994), was the first in-depth investigative treatment of the “false memory syndrome” and the Freyds family of Philadelphia, who invented and popularized it. It won a Health Journalism Gold Award and is generally credited with leveling the playing field in the contentious debate over false memory syndrome’s validity. His Washington Post Magazine cover story “Creative Tension” (April 16, 1995) was the first major national profile of Johns Hopkins psychologist Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, and the first time she “came out” as having manic-depressive illness – the disease she had devoted her life to researching and treating (laying the groundwork for her bestselling memoir, An Unquiet Mind). “Creative Tension” won a 1995 Easter Seals Equality, Dignity and Independence Award for enhancing the image of people with disabilities, as did Fried’s Philadelphia story the same month, “The Incredible Shrinking Institute”, about the rise and fall of the nation’s first psychiatric institution (and the birthplace of the American Psychiatric Association). In 1999, his final year as a writer at Philadelphia magazine, he received the National Headliner Award for Feature Writing on a Variety of Subjects for his investigation of the Noes as well as “Family Business” (September 1998), the first in-depth story about the family that had built – and was in the process of slowly destroying – the Rite Aid drugstore chain.

The following time, Fried was awarded his third National Magazine Award in the area of Public Interest Reporting for a trilogy of three stories published in Philadelphia about the prescribed drug Floxin. The first article of the series “Less than One Percent” (April 1993) focused on his wife’s reaction to one amount of Floxin and explored the FDA’s regulatory process of prescription medications. The parts two and three demanded (and later, prompted) stricter FDA rules for antibiotics.

Stephen Fried Net Worth

Stephen Fried is one of the richest American Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stephen Fried 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Fried initially became famous as a writer from Philadelphia and began his career in 1982. He worked all-time from 1989 on and for the next decade as a freelance editor and writer. In that time, he was also a contributor journalist and music editor for GQ from 1987 until 1991 as well as a contributing writer to Vanity Fair from 1994 to 1997, a contributor editor for Glamour from 1996 until 1998, and was a regular contributing writer to The Washington Post Magazine, Rolling Stone and others. The year 1999 was the time he started an two-year term as the editor-in chief of Philadelphia following which he returned to editorial consulting, writing and teaching. He was back at Glamour as a contributor editor from 2001 until 2008. He was also the columnist and writer at the Ladies Home Journal for a period of time from 2003 until 2008. In 2003, he started teaching writing for magazines at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is currently writing for various magazines.

One of his earlier important magazine articles include “Over the Edge” (Philadelphia October 1984) An investigation into the suicides of teenagers in a town of a tiny size in Bucks County, which won an award of the Clarion Award and was a finalist for the Livingston Award, and “Boy Crazy” (Philadelphia November 1987) is a story about a homosexual police chief who is a pedophile in an area that is close to Philadelphia and was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists Award for magazine reporting. The February 1989 Philadelphia story “The Three Mrs. Lymans” which dealt with the fight over the will of the singer Frankie Lymon, inspired the Warner Brothers film Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

Fried published his first book, a biography of high-fashion model and AIDS victim Gia Carangi, in 1993. Titled Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, the book grew out of a lengthy Philadelphia magazine piece and was reviewed positively in The New York Times and The Boston Globe upon its release. Fried’s book was optioned by Paramount but was also used as the basis for the 1998 HBO film Gia, which went on to win an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, including one for Angelina Jolie in the title role. Fried is also credited with having invented the word “fashionista” for Thing of Beauty, which he used as shorthand for anyone involved in the creation and manufacturing of high fashion. His name appears in the Oxford English Dictionary entry for the word.

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His third book, 2002’s The New Rabbi, combined several years of reporting on the effort to choose a new spiritual leader at Philadelphia’s influential Har Zion Temple with Fried’s own spiritual search after the death of his father. The book, initially controversial among some clergy, went on to receive very favorable reviews from The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World and The Philadelphia Inquirer, which called it “brave…remarkable…a book about leadership you don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate.” It was also named one of the ten best spiritual books of the year by Beliefnet, and is used as a seminary textbook and read by congregations preparing to choose new leaders. His following book, Husbandry: Sex, Love & Dirty Laundry—Inside the Minds of Married Men, was a collection of 31 essays about men and relationships, originally written for his Ladies’ Home Journal column “Heart of a Husband.”

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