Scott Michael Bradfield (born 27 April 1955) is an American essayist, critic and fiction writer who resides in
London
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, England. He has taught at the
University of California
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, the
University of Connecticut
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and
Kingston University
, mottoeng = "Through Learning We Progress"
, established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute
, type = Public
, endowment = £2.3 m (2015)
, ...
and has reviewed for ''
The Times Literary Supplement
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History
The ''TLS'' first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ''The Times'' but became a separate publication ...
'', ''
Elle
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'', ''
The Observer
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'', ''
Vice
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'' and ''
The Independent
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''. He is best known, however, for his short stories, of which he has had four collections published. The 1998 film ''
Luminous Motion'', for which he wrote the screenplay, was based on his first novel, ''The History of Luminous Motion'' (1989). Bradfield also operates a public
youtube channel
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, where he uploads videos on a variety of books and literary topics.
Bradfield currently teaches a
St. Mary's Universityand
City Literary Institute
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.
Bibliography
Novels
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* ''Animal Planet'' New York: Picador USA, 1995.
* ''Good Girl Wants It Bad'' New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.
* ''The People Who Watched Her Pass By'' Columbus, Ohio:
Two Dollar Radio
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, 2010.
*
* ''Dazzle Resplendent: Adventures of a Misanthropic Dog'': 2016,
Short fiction
;Collections
* ''The Secret Life of Houses'' London: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
* ''Dream of the Wolf'' New York: Knopf, 1990.
* ''Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories'' New York: Picador USA, 1996.
* ''Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance'' New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005.
;Stories
[Short stories unless otherwise noted.]
Criticism
''Dreaming Revolution: Transgression in the Development of American Romance'' Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 1993.
* ''Why I Hate Toni Morrison's Beloved'': First presented as the Seymour Fischer Lecture at the
Free University of Berlin
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, on January 17, 2001. It was revised and expanded and published in the ''
Denver Quarterly
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''Publisher''
''Denver Quarterly'' i ...
'' and later reprinted onlin
Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (2016):
References
External links
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*Enote
'Bradfield, Scott Introduction'*Strong, Benjami
'The Gloriously Irresponsible Career of Scott Bradfield'*Bradfield, Scot
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1955 births
Living people
20th-century American essayists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American essayists
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American short story writers
21st-century American male writers
Academics of Kingston University
American expatriates in England
American film critics
American male essayists
American male novelists
American male short story writers
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people
University of California, Berkeley faculty
University of Connecticut faculty
Novelists from Connecticut