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A Short Biography of Lenny Bruce

Author Name:

Lenny Bruce

Born As:

Leonard Alfred Schneider

Other Names:

Leonard Alfred Schneider

Born:

13 Oct 1925

Died:

3 Aug 1966




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Comedian, writer, social critic and satirist                          
Selected Works:

Stamp Help Out!  - 1961 and/or 1965, self-published and sold at his concerts and in bookshops like City Lights in San Francisco.

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People - Playboy Publishing, 1967.                          
Mother Sally Marr - née Sadie Kitchenberg
Wife Honey Harlow
Survived by daughter Kitty Bruce                          
                          
His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was also the first posthumous pardon in New York history.

Changed his name in 1947.