James Christopher Frey is an American writer. His memoirs A Million Little Pieces (2003), My Friend Leonard (2005) and fictional Bright Shiny Morning were all bestsellers.
Before Frey began his writing career, he held several jobs in the Chicago area while studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. Frey then moved to Los Angeles, California, and found work as a screenwriter, director, and producer. In the spring of 1996, Frey started writing A Mil...
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James Christopher Frey is an American writer. His memoirs A Million Little Pieces (2003), My Friend Leonard (2005) and fictional Bright Shiny Morning were all bestsellers.
Before Frey began his writing career, he held several jobs in the Chicago area while studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. Frey then moved to Los Angeles, California, and found work as a screenwriter, director, and producer. In the spring of 1996, Frey started writing A Million Little Pieces, a memoir of his experiences during his treatment for alcohol and drug addiction at a rehabilitation center in Minnesota.
Frey wrote the screenplays to the films Kissing a Fool and Sugar: The Fall of the West. Both were produced in 1998, the latter of which he also directed.
Doubleday published A Million Little Pieces in April 2003, and Amazon.com editors selected it as their favorite book of that year. The New Yorker praised the book as “A frenzied, electrifying description of the experience.”
In 2004, Frey wrote My Friend...
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