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Stephen Fried

Stephen Fried is an American investigative journalist, non-fiction author, and lecturer who teaches at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (Pocket), a biography of model Gia Carangi and her era, was published in 1993. He has since written Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs , an investigation of medication safety and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex; The New Rabbi , which weaves the dramatic search for a new religious leader at one of the nation's most influential houses of worship with a meditation on the author's Jewish upbringing; Husbandry , a collection of essays on marriage and men; Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time, the bestselling biography of restaurant and hotel entrepreneur Fred Harvey; and RUSH: Revolution, Madness & the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father. In 2015, he co-authored the New York Times bestseller A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction and Profiles in Mental Health Courage with former Congressman and mental health advocate Patrick J. Kennedy.