David Bradley (novelist)
| David Bradley | |
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| Born | 1950 Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Occupation | novelist, essayist, academic |
| Genres | African American literature |
| Notable work(s) | The Chaneysville Incident |
| Notable award(s) |
PEN/Faulkner Award 1982 |
David Henry Bradley, Jr. (born 1950, in Bedford, Pennsylvania)[1] is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon and author of South Street and the The Chaneysville Incident, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982.
The Chaneysville Incident, inspired in part by the real-life discovery of the graves of a group of runaway slaves on a farm near Chaneysville in Bedford County, PA, where Bradley was born, also earned Bradley a 1982 Academy Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Bradley has published essays, book reviews, and interviews in periodicals and newspapers such as Esquire, Redbook, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. He also appeared on the June 12, 2011 episode of 60 Minutes in a segment regarding the censored version of Huckleberry Finn.[2]
[edit] Selected works
- South Street (1975)
- The Chaneysville Incident (1981)
- Essays
- "...By Any Other Name" - Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2 (2008)
[edit] References
- ^ Button, Marilyn D. (1999). "David Henry Bradley, Jr. (1950-)". In Emmanuel S., Nelson. Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 42–3. ISBN 0313305013. http://books.google.com/books?id=WVuFAJX8FxIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ ""Huckleberry Finn" and the N-word debate". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/18/60minutes/main20044663.shtml.
