David
Bradley received a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania
and an M. A. in Area Studies from the Institute for United State Studies
at the University of London. He is the author of two novels, South
Street and The Chaneysville Incident. The latter won the
1982 PEN/Faulkner Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy
and Institute of Arts and Letters. He has published literary (as opposed
to scholarly) essays on Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, Herman Melville,
William Melvin Kelley and Alice Walker, and has published articles in
Esquire, Redbook, The New Yorker, the New
York Times Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine,
the Los Angeles Times, and The Village Voice and other
periodicals. He has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction,
and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for creative
non-fiction. He is currently at work on a non-fiction book, The
Bondage Hypothesis: Meditations on Race and History and a novel-in-stories,
Raystown.