biography
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Bradbury, Sir Malcolm (Stanley)
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| lived:
| (1932–2000)
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| biography:
| Writer and critic, born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Leicester, and taught there at the university, before becoming professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia in 1970. The travels and travails of an academic have provided material for several of his novels, such as Eating People is Wrong (1959), Stepping Westward (1965), The History Man (1975, also a television series), and Rates of Exchange (1982). His work for television inspired the novella Cuts (1987); these worlds collide in Dr Criminale (1992). In his critical writing, he sponsored Modernist and post-Modernist ideas, and his books include monographs on Evelyn Waugh (1962) and Saul Bellow (1982), and The Modern American Novel (1983). Later works include the comic fiction anthology Present Laughter (1994), The Atlas of Literature (1996), and To the Hermitage (2000). He was knighted in 1999. |
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