He spent much of his early life in Troy, New York, before enlisting in the army in 1945, achieving the rank of second lieutenant while serving as a field artillery commander.
In 1956, Feldman worked for United Productions of America, helping write episodes of Gerald McBoing Boing, and was also employed to conduct research on storylines in the public domain that could potentially be adopted into cartoons.
During his time in Chicago, Feldman studied under Leo Strauss and became friends with Mircea Eliade, a Romanian author and scholar of religion.
Richardson and Feldman continued to work together from 1979 to 1984, and published a 50-volume compendium of rare and important mythological texts used by Romantic poets.
[2] Feldman worked on a book tentatively titled Fame and Glory explored the idea of notoriety and the seeking of recognition in literary figures, both authors and characters.