Bruce Jay Friedman was born in the Bronx, New York. He was a journalism major at the University of Missouri. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1953. In 1954, he married Ginger Howard. In the 1950s he worked for several famous men's magazines. He eventually moved on to become executive editor in charge of the magazines Men (not the present magazine of the same title), Male, and Man's World. In 1962 his first novel, Stern, was published. He went on to produce eight novels in total.
