David Bradley is the author of two novels, South Street (1975) and The Chaneysville Incident (1981) which was awarded the 1982 PEN/Faulkner Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Both novels have been issued in electronic format by Open Road Media (http://www.openroadmedia.com/contributor/david-bradley/) His most recent fiction, "You Remember the Pin Mill" appeared in Narrative and was selected for the 2014 O. Henry Prize. His essay "A Eulogy for Nigger" was awarded the 2015 Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize.
Since 1985 Bradley has worked primarily in Creative Nonfiction, publishing in Esquire, Redbook, The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Philadelphia Magazine, The Pennsylvania Gazette and Dissent. His most recent Creative Nonfiction has appeared online in Narrative, Brevity, Tri- Quarterly and First Things.
Bradley has also published articles on and introductions to works by Melville, Twain, Richard Wright, William Melvin Kelley and Edmund Wilson and has co- edited, with Shelley Fisher Fishkin, The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America (1998) and The Sport of the Gods and Other Essential Writings of Paul Laurence Dunbar (2005.)
Bradley holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in United States Studies from the University of London. He has been a permanent faculty member at Temple University in Philadelphia and the University of Oregon in Eugene, and a visiting professor at Colgate University, MIT, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, The College of William and Mary, the City University of New York, The Michener Center at the University of Texas and Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2018 he was elected to the Bedford High School Hall of Excellence.
He is currently at work on a volume of creative nonfiction, The Bondage Hypothesis: Meditations on Race, History and America, a collection of essays, Lunch-Bucket Pieces and a novel in stories, Raystown.
Born and raised in Western Pennsylvania, he now lives in La Jolla, California.
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