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Born in New York and educated at Beloit College in Wisconsin, author Roy Freirich has been Associate Editor for the nationally renowned "Beloit Poetry Journal," and for the national desk of "The New York Times."

He received a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan, where he wrote and co-directed "Persona Non Grata," an Ann Arbor International Film Festival prize winner.

As a screenwriter, Roy wrote "City of Silence" for DreamWorks, "Frontin'," with his wife Debrah, for Fox Searchlight, and the screenplay for the upcoming Sony release, "Winged Creatures," adapted from his own novel.

“Winged Creatures" stars Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning,, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Hudson,, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeanne...more

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	Winged Creatures: A Novel 2.86 of 5 stars 2.86 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Roy rated a book 5 of 5 stars Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Among so many other things, it is delicious gossip elevated to the level of tragedy, and it is tragedy with all the classic tropes, reinvented in the post-Freudian era of American hegemony. We read it with an exquisite frisson of schadenfreude and t...more
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Roy rated a book 3 of 5 stars Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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