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Raymond Federman (May 15, 1928 — October 6, 2009) was a French—American novelist and academic, known also for poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. He held positions at the University at Buffalo from 1973 to 1999, when he was appointed Distinguished Emeritus Professor. Federman was a writer in the experimental style, one that sought to deconstruct traditional prose. This type of writing is quite prevalent in his book Double or Nothing, in which the linear narrative of the story has been broken down and restructured so as to be nearly incoherent. Words are also often arranged on pages to resemble images or to suggest repetitious themes.He was born in Montrouge, France, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1947. He studied at Columbia University and as a graduate at UCLA, where he earned a doctorate in comparative literature on Samuel Beckett. He was also a co-founder of the Fiction Collective, a publishing house dedicated to experimental fiction and its writers.

Federman died of cancer at the age of 81 in San Diego, California., and in May 2010, his final new English novel was released by Starcherone Press: SHHH: The Story of a Childhood, edited and with an introduction from writer Davis Schneiderman, who also made a 2007 YouTube video with Federman and author Lidia Yuknavtich, in which the three boil books in noodles. This is a reference to Federman's first novel Double or Nothing.

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