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Occupation novelist, essayist, academic Genre African American literature Notable works The Chaneysville Incident Notable awards PEN/Faulkner Award
1982
Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1982
O. Henry Award
2014 Education Institute for the Study of the Americas (1972–1974), University of Pennsylvania Awards PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback) Books The Chaneysville Incident, South Street, From text to performance in the Eliz, An introduction to the Ura, The Lodestar Project Similar People Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, Barry Hines, William Faulkner | ||
David Henry Bradley, Jr. (born 1950, in Bedford, Pennsylvania) is the author of North Street and the The Chaneysville Incident, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982. Both novels have been recently released in electronic editions by Open Road Media. 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. His short story "You Remember the Pinmill" (winner of a 2014 O. Henry Award) was published in 2013 in Narrative magazine.
Since 1985, Bradley has worked primarily in creative nonfiction, with pieces in Esquire, Redbook, The New York Times, Philadelphia Magazine, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The Nation and Dissent. His work has also appeared online in Obit, Narrative, and Brevity. Bradley holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in United States Studies from the University of London, and was a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. He appeared on the June 12, 2011 episode of 60 Minutes in a segment regarding the censored version of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.