Otto Alva Friedrich (1929 in Boston, Massachusetts – April 26, 1995 in Manhasset, New York[1]), was an American author, and historian.
Upon graduation, he became a journalist and then the managing editor of The Saturday Evening Post in 1965.
[2] After the Post closed down, he spent the remainder of his career at TIME magazine, where he wrote more than 40 cover stories.
[5] In 1970, he won the George Polk Award for his book Decline and Fall, about The Saturday Evening Post.
He died of lung cancer at the North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York in 1995.