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==Life==
Born in [[Buffalo, New York]], Friend was raised there and in [[Swarthmore, Pennsylvania]], (where his father, [[Theodore Friend]], was president of [[Swarthmore College]]). He was educated at [[The Shipley School]] and [[Harvard University]].
 
Friend was a contributing editor at various publications, including ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', prior to becoming a staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in 1998.<ref name=nyorkerbio /> His work there includes the magazine's "Letter from California".<ref name=nyorkerbio>{{cite web | url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/tad_friend/search?contributorName=tad%20friend |title=Contributors: Tad Friend | work=[[The New Yorker]] | date= n.d.}}</ref> In 2001, he published "Lost in Mongolia: Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands", a collection of his articles. His memoir, ''Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor,'' was published in 2009.<ref name=nyorkerbio />