Bruce Benderson
Novelist, Author
1946 –
Who is Bruce Benderson?
Bruce Benderson is an American author, to Jewish parents of Russian descent, who lives in New York. He attended William Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York and then Binghamton University. He is today a novelist, essayist, journalist and translator, widely published in France, less so in the United States.
In 2004, Benderson's lengthy erotic memoir Autobiographie érotique, about a nine-month sojourn in Romania, won the prestigious French literary prize, the Prix de Flore. The book was published in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2006 under the title The Romanian: Story of an Obsession.
Benderson's book-length essay, Toward the New Degeneracy, looks at New York’s Times Square, where rich and poor once mixed in a lively atmosphere of drugs, sex, and commerce. Benderson argues that this kind of mingling of classes has been the source of many modern avant-garde movements, and he laments the disappearance of that particular milieu. His novel User is a lyrical descent into the world of junkies and male hustlers. He is also the author of James Bidgood, about the maker of the cult film Pink Narcissus.
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- Born
- Aug 6, 1946
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Binghamton University
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on July 23, 2013
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