'Friend shows himself capable of both the tender and the sardonic as he deals with repeated themes: old age and the approach of death, his Jewishness, the erotic.'
- Acumen
Robert Friend was born in Brooklyn in 1913. In 1950 he settled in Jerusalem, where he taught English and American literature at the Hebrew University for more than thirty years. He died in 1998.
- Acumen
Robert Friend was born in Brooklyn in 1913. In 1950 he settled in Jerusalem, where he taught English and American literature at the Hebrew University for more than thirty years. He died in 1998.