Dan Friedman was born in Chicago, graduated from Oxford University, and taught writing at the University of Virginia. He founded Albemarle magazine, was founding editor of La Belle France, and is author of a travel memoir, My Mother’s Side. His writing has been praised by the New York Times, Gourmet, and Money. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
A heartbreaking, haunting read, mining to connect a sons timeless
desire to belong and understand the irrevocable generational
consequence of rejection. A story told by a relative I never knew
existed. Welcome to the clan.” Mandy Patinkin
They raised us, but who were they . . . really? Dan Friedman’s
magnificent search for his roots made me ask, achingly: Where do I
begin?’ Read it and start searching!” Andy Shaw, Chicago Sun-Times
journalist and president of Illinois’s Better Government
Association
More than a son’s paean to his father, The King of Chicago is an
intergenerational portrait of the quintessential American Jewish
family, a rags-to-riches story that confronts the issues of
assimilation and identity with courage and humor.” Ethan Michaeli,
author of The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed
America, from the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of
Obama.
We all have fathers, but not all of them are perfect. Friedman’s
father was brought up in an orphanage, and in the book, Friedman
sorts through his strengths and weaknesses as he evaluates how his
father affected his own life. His moving story is a love letter to
an imperfect father.” Tony Vanderwarker, author of Writing with
the Master: How One of the World’s Bestselling Authors Fixed My
Book and Changed My Life
Friedman personalizes the American Jewish immigrant experience.
With Marks Nathan as a fulcrum point, he traces the story of his
family from a shtetl in 1903 Pale of Settlement to Chicago, through
a total name change of the family forebear, to the breakup and
re-uniting of family around the orphanage and on to tony suburbia
in Glencoe. Then the road leads east to Charlottesville, Va., where
Jews were a curiosity and anti-Semitism was Southern genteel, and
finally coming back home to Chicago." George Castle, Chicago
Jewish News
Mr. Friedman’s memoir is a touching story of a son’s unqualified
love for his father.”Jewish Child & Family Services, Chicago
A heartbreaking, haunting read, mining to connect a sons timeless
desire to belong and understand the irrevocable generational
consequence of rejection. A story told by a relative I never knew
existed. Welcome to the clan.” Mandy Patinkin
They raised us, but who were they . . . really? Dan Friedman’s
magnificent search for his roots made me ask, achingly: Where do I
begin?’ Read it and start searching!” Andy Shaw, Chicago Sun-Times
journalist and president of Illinois’s Better Government
Association
More than a son’s paean to his father, The King of Chicago is an
intergenerational portrait of the quintessential American Jewish
family, a rags-to-riches story that confronts the issues of
assimilation and identity with courage and humor.” Ethan Michaeli,
author of The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed
America, from the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of
Obama.
We all have fathers, but not all of them are perfect. Friedman’s
father was brought up in an orphanage, and in the book, Friedman
sorts through his strengths and weaknesses as he evaluates how his
father affected his own life. His moving story is a love letter to
an imperfect father.” Tony Vanderwarker, author of Writing with
the Master: How One of the World’s Bestselling Authors Fixed My
Book and Changed My Life
Friedman personalizes the American Jewish immigrant experience.
With Marks Nathan as a fulcrum point, he traces the story of his
family from a shtetl in 1903 Pale of Settlement to Chicago, through
a total name change of the family forebear, to the breakup and
re-uniting of family around the orphanage and on to tony suburbia
in Glencoe. Then the road leads east to Charlottesville, Va., where
Jews were a curiosity and anti-Semitism was Southern genteel, and
finally coming back home to Chicago." George Castle, Chicago
Jewish News
Mr. Friedman’s memoir is a touching story of a son’s unqualified
love for his father.”Jewish Child & Family Services, Chicago
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