Picking up the pieces
James Frey was left bereft when his controversial fictionalised memoir was condemned by the literary world. Now he’s back with a novel, Bright Shiny Morning, that has defied his detractors’ expectations.
Biography
James Frey
Born: September 12, 1969, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Career beginnings:
Frey was working in Los Angeles as a journeyman screenwriter – he co-wrote the screenplay for Kissing a Fool, a 1998 film starring David Schwimmer – when he decided to give book writing, something he’d attempted before to little success, one final shot. He got a second mortgage on his house in Los Angeles and wrote the book that would become ...
