Brad Barkley
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Brad Barkley is a U.S. fiction writer currently teaching at Frostburg State University. He is known mostly for writing the book Alison's Automotive Repair Manual: A Novel. Barkley was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas. He has two children, Lucas, 19, and Alex, 16. Barkley also has a half-beagle half-chihuahua dog, Nellie.
Besides Alison's Automotive Repair Manual, Barkley has also written Money, Love; Another Perfect Catastrophe; and Circle View, and has co-written Scrambled Eggs at Midnight; Dream Factory; and Jars of Glass. His novels have been translated into German, Japanese, and Portuguese. His short stories have been published in over 30 magazines, including the Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and Glimmer Train. He continues to write and is currently working on several books.[citation needed]
In Barkley's work, his characters are intriguingly unique, such as a father who started a Christian fat camp with the motto, "What Would Jesus Eat?" in Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, and a man named Sugar who welds sculptures and then leaves them unused, lying around the yard, in "Another Perfect Catastrophe."
He has won numerous awards, including four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Art's Council, and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[1]
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