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Apr 23, 1934 Brooklyn, New York, United States Died on 31 Dec 1997 (aged 63)
American novelist, poet, journalist and teacher (1934-1997)
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About Richard Elman
- Richard M.
- Elman (April 23, 1934 – December 31, 1997) was a novelist, poet, journalist, and teacher.
- He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
- His parents were Yiddish-speaking and came to the United States at the turn of the 20th century from Russo-Poland.
- His boyhood is captured in his comic novel Fredi & Shirl & The Kids: An Autobiography In Fables.At Syracuse University (B.
- A., 1955), Elman's teachers, Daniel Curley and Donald Dike, encouraged his writing.
- At Syracuse, Elman met Emily Schorr, who became a painter.
- They married in 1955, and in 1964 their daughter Margaret was born.
- The marriage ended in divorce.
- In 1979, Elman married Alice (Neufeld) Goode, a teacher, who was his wife until his death.
- Their daughter Lila was born in 1981.Elman thought of himself as a socialist and his journalism reflected his concerns about social and political injustice.
