Richard P. Brickner (May 14, 1933 – May 12, 2006) was an American novelist, memoirist and critic.
He attended Middlebury College from 1951 to 1953, when a traffic accident left him paralyzed.
He resumed his education at Columbia University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1957.
[1][2] Brickner's first novel, The Broken Year (1962), was a fictional account of his injury, and was adapted as an episode of Alcoa Premiere.
[1] His other works included the novels Bringing Down the House (1971), Tickets (1981), After She Left (1988) and the memoir My Second Twenty Years: An Unexpected Life (1976).