"A Change of Plan", in which a man falls in love with another woman at the hotel pool during his honeymoon in Florida, reflected how Friedman's own honeymoon unfolded in the aforementioned state. Friedman was noted for his versatility of writing novels, short stories, plays, in addition to being a screenwriter and magazine editor. He frequently discussed how conflicted he felt in composing screenplays for profit and for pleasure, as opposed to his "higher calling" of authoring novels. He summed up his attitude towards the former as, "Take the money, scribble a bit, and enjoy the room service". Personal life and death Friedman married Ginger Howard in 1954. Together, they had three sons: Josh, Kipp and Drew. They divorced in 1978, after their marriage "crumbled like an old graham cracker". Five years later, he married Patricia O'Donohue. They remained married until his death, and had one daughter, Molly. Friedman once got into a quarrel with fellow writer Norman Mailer at the latter's house party. It turned physical when Mailer headbutted him and Mailer's wife egged him on to "kill the bastard". Although Friedman eventually prevailed in the fistfight, he had to receive a tetanus shot after Mailer bit him in the neck. Friedman died on June 3, 2020, at his home in Brooklyn. He was 90, and had had neuropathy in the years leading up to his death. According to his wife, Patricia, he was hospitalized one month before his death due to an infection that was not related to COVID-19. Novels Source: Stern (1962) A Mother's Kisses (1964) The Dick (1970) About Harry Towns (1974) Tokyo Woes (1985) The Current Climate (1989) A Father's Kisses (1996) Violencia!: A Musical Novel (2002) Short fiction Black Humor (1965) (editor) Black Angels: Stories (1966) Far from the City of Class (1963) Let's Hear It for a Beautiful Guy (1984) The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman (1995) Sexual Pensees (with Andre Barbe) (2006) Three Balconies: Stories and a Novella (2008) Filmography The Heartbreak Kid (1972) (screenplay by Neil Simon; based on Friedman's short story "A Change of Plan") The Ted Bessell Show (1973) (TV) Fore Play (1975) (story) Stir Crazy (1980) (screenplay) Doctor Detroit (1983) (screenplay with Robert Boris and Carl Gottlieb) Splash (1984) (screenplay with Brian Grazer, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) The Lonely Guy (1984) (screenplay by Neil Simon, Ed. Weinberger and Stan Daniels; based on Friedman's book The