17 Facts About Stephen Fried

Stephen Fried is an American investigative journalist, non-fiction author, and lecturer who teaches at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Stephen Fried enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, where he wrote for and co-edited 34th Street, the university's weekly magazine.

Stephen Fried eulogized Magid eleven years earlier in a piece for Philadelphia magazine, in which he shared experiences from her first-ever Advanced Expository Writing class in 1977.

Stephen Fried published his first book, a biography of high-fashion model and AIDS victim Gia Carangi, in 1993.

Stephen Fried's book was optioned by Paramount but was 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.

Stephen Fried is 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.

Stephen Fried's name appears in the Oxford English Dictionary entry for the word.

In 1998, Stephen Fried published his second book, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs.

In support of the book, Stephen Fried embarked upon a train tour along the old Santa Fe route from Chicago to Los Angeles, visiting many of the classic mid- and southwestern cities where Harvey establishments thrived from the late 19th century well into the 20th.

The book has helped fuel a renaissance of interest in Harvey, the Harvey Girls and the company's historic hotels, several of which have been in constant use and others that have been restored Since its publication, Stephen Fried has been invited to lecture at museums and universities across the country about the book.

Stephen Fried's sixth book, co-authored with former Patrick J Kennedy, was A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction, published in September, 2015.

Stephen Fried is currently writing a biography of controversial early twentieth century business and political hero William Gibbs McAdoo, the progressive New York entrepreneur who dug the first tunnels under the Hudson River, was the landmark Secretary of the Treasury during WWI, co-founded United Artists Studios with Charlie Chaplin, almost became President of the United States, and later was an influential US Senator from California during the New Deal.

Stephen Fried first became known as a writer for Philadelphia, where he began in 1982, worked full-time until 1989 and remained for another decade as a contract writer and editorial consultant.

Stephen Fried began teaching and lecturing about the subjects of his books and articles.

The next year, Stephen Fried won his second National Magazine Award in the field of Public Interest Reporting for a series of three stories in Philadelphia on the prescription drug Floxin.

Stephen Fried went on to publish three award-winning pieces about mental health care.

From 2018 until 2021, Stephen Fried did weekly interviews in Philadelphia with Dr Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, who was approaching 100 years of age but still working.