Stephen Fried

Stephen Fried

B.A., University of Pennsylvania. Columnist, GQ; contract writer, Vanity Fair, Philadelphia magazine and Glamour. Contributor, The Washington Post Magazine, Rolling Stone; editor-in-chief, Philadelphia magazine.

Fried has been the recepient of the following awards: National Magazine Award for Public Interest, 1994; Special Interest, 1993; finalist for writing, 1989, 1999; two-time editorial finalist, 2000; National Headliner Award for Outstanding Feature Writing, 1999; National SDX/SPJ Award for Magazine Reporting, 1987; Vidocq Society Medal of Honor, 1998; Clarion Award for writing, 1985, 1995, 1999; and for editing, 2000, 2001.

He is the author of Thing of Beauty (1993), Bitter Pills (1998), The New Rabbi (2002).