Hannah Friedman

Friedman's debut book, Everything Sucks, was a teen memoir released by HCI Books in August 2009 that recounts the story of her adolescence. It begins with the story of the year when Friedman was in middle school that her family spent living on a tour bus traveling the United Kingdom as her father performed concerts around the country. It then describes her struggle to fit in when she returned to public school, which leads her parents to put her in private school instead. After enrolling at a prestigious boarding school, Friedman falls in with the popular crowd and finally begins to live the life of which she has always dreamed, only to find that it is not quite what she had imagined.

In October 2009, Friedman was asked to perform at the 35th Anniversary Celebration of the National Coalition Against Censorship, a charity benefit gala hosted by Judy Blume that also featured appearances by Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Rivers, Rachel Dratch, Michelle Branch, and Junot Diaz. Friedman wrote and performed an original comedy song called "Party Like It's 1984."

In 2008, Friedman won the Procter & Gamble / New York Television Festival Flying Solo competition. Her original television pilot premiered at the NYTVF and on mylifetime.com and chronicled the writing process for her first book, Everything Sucks, which was published in August 2009 by HCI Books.

Friedman then attended Yale University. She was a winner of the 2007 Yale Playwrights Festival for her play, Spread It Thin.

Friedman's high school career saw her first publication, a 2004 article in Newsweek Magazine called "When Your Friends Become The Enemy" about the difficulties of the college application process; to date, Friedman remains one of the youngest people to have been published in Newsweek.