Fred Jay Gordon

FRED JAY GORDON was born in the Bronx and lives in NY. He's swept warehouse floors and loaded & unloaded delivery trucks for the Budweiser beer factory in Newark, NJ. His horse, Pegasus, was a red, 17-hand high ex-race horse that he rode bareback and could jump five foot high fences. When he was 16, he wrote and recorded a pop song, "Bye, Bye, She Cried," which he sold to Atlantic Records. He went to The Peddie School, received a degree in English from UC Berkeley, and a scholarship degree in Film from Columbia University while working as a salad boy and waiter. On Broadway, he was involved with producing, casting, and fund raising for two musical comedy smash hits. In the heavily snowed mountains of Pennsylvania, he was a passenger in a little car that went out of control speeding down a hill which then collided head-first into a 15 ton truck. The car was smashed off the road, hit a tree, bounced, and he was hurled out of the car and thrown back onto the road. He awoke hours later and, according to the doctors, "miraculously" lived. At NBC Studios in New York, he worked as a Tour Guide and wore a paper collar and a skinny black tie. While finishing his first novel, he did day labor in San Francisco and worked as an artist's model at the Art Institute. His plays have been produced in NY, LA, Baltimore, etc, and he's taught playwriting as well as horse-back riding. Other jobs include appearing as a contestant on tv game shows, working as a social worker in Brooklyn, working the graveyard shift in the prisons in the Tombs in downtown NYC. He's traveled throughout the US, Europe, and parts of China and the mid-East. He’s a PEN Award winner and was a resident writer at the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY.