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'''Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford''' (August 21, 1896 [[Lauderdale County, Tennessee]] — November 13, 1948 [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]) was an American [[short story]] writer and [[novelist]].

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| name = Roark Bradford
| image = Roark Bradford.jpg
| caption = Bradford around 1928
| birth_name = Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford
| birth_date = {{birth date|1896|8|21}}
| birth_place = [[Lauderdale County, Tennessee]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1948|11|13|1896|11|13}}
| death_place = [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]
| occupation = writer
| education = [[University of California, Berkeley]]
| nationality =
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| spouse = Lydia Sehorn, Mary Rose Sciarra Himler
| children =
}}

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'''Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford''' (August 21, 1896, [[Lauderdale County, Tennessee]] — November 13, 1948, [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]) was an American [[short story]] writer and [[novelist]].


==Life==
==Life==
He attended [[University of California, Berkeley]], and served as a first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery during [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DoDelcNCAt8C&pg=PA102&dq=Roark+Bradford&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=y3_XSo_yEZm8M8WA1aEP#v=onepage&q=Roark%20Bradford&f=false| title=American English dialects in literature| editor=Eva Mae Burkett| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield| year=1978| isbn=978-0-8108-1151-5 }}</ref>
He attended [[University of California, Berkeley]], and served as a [[first lieutenant]] in the Coast Artillery during [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DoDelcNCAt8C&dq=Roark+Bradford&pg=PA102| title=American English dialects in literature| editor=Eva Mae Burkett| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield| year=1978| isbn=978-0-8108-1151-5 }}</ref>


He married Lydia Sehorn, divorcing her in July 1933 after having only son [[Richard Bradford (novelist)|Richard Bradford]]. He then married Mary Rose Sciarra Himler, also a writer, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He was night city editor for the New Orleans ''Times-Picayune''.
He married Lydia Sehorn, divorcing her in July 1933 after having only son [[Richard Bradford (novelist)|Richard Bradford]]. He then married Mary Rose Sciarra Himler, also a writer, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He was night city editor for the New Orleans ''[[Times-Picayune]]''.


Bradford continued to produce well-received work during the 1930s and early 1940s. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve Bureau of Aeronautics Training during World War II. In 1946, he accepted a position as visiting lecturer in the English department at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Bradford continued to produce well-received work during the 1930s and early 1940s. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve Bureau of Aeronautics Training during World War II. In 1946, he accepted a position as visiting lecturer in the English department at [[Tulane University]] in New Orleans.


On November 13, 1948, he died of [[amoebiasis]], believed to have been contracted while he was stationed in French West Africa in 1943. His cremated remains were spread over the waters of the Mississippi River.
On November 13, 1948, he died of [[amoebiasis]], believed to have been contracted while he was stationed in French West Africa in 1943. His cremated remains were spread over the waters of the Mississippi River.


At the time of his death, Bradford’s writings were very popular. Since the 1940s, however, much of his body of work has been reevaluated. Many criticize his work (as a white author) as patronizing and demeaning in its portrayal of black characters.<ref>url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3412</ref>
At the time of his death, Bradford's writings were very popular. Since the 1940s, however, much of his body of work has been reevaluated. Many criticize his work (as a white author) as patronizing and demeaning in its portrayal of black characters.<ref>url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3412</ref>


[[Marc Connelly]] adapted ''Ol' Man Adam and his Chillun'' for the stage as ''[[The Green Pastures]]'', which won a Pulitzer Prize.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EpX4H4JdZOgC&pg=PA44&dq=Roark+Bradford&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=XJTXSt25OZOoNpTmsZkP#v=onepage&q=Roark%20Bradford&f=false|title=Southern Writers|work=google.com|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref>
[[Marc Connelly]] adapted ''Ol' Man Adam and his Chillun'' for the stage as ''[[The Green Pastures]]'', which won a Pulitzer Prize.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EpX4H4JdZOgC&dq=Roark+Bradford&pg=PA44|title=Southern Writers|isbn=9780807103906|accessdate=25 February 2015|last1=Flora|first1=Joseph M.|last2=Vogel|first2=Amber|date=September 1980}}</ref>


His stage adaption of ''John Henry'' appeared in New York City in 1940.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lOSvzYLs3tMC&pg=PA186&dq=Roark+Bradford&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=rJPXSvaBFJOENpi44bMF#v=onepage&q=Roark%20Bradford&f=false| title=Louisiana: a guide to the state| author=Federal Writers' Project| publisher=US History Publishers| year=1947| isbn=978-1-60354-017-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPJZTJtz1IwC&pg=PA478&dq=Roark+Bradford&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=rJPXSvaBFJOENpi44bMF#v=onepage&q=Roark%20Bradford&f=false|title=Out of Sight|work=google.com|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8Gk-kEZ2NcC&pg=PA445&dq=Roark+Bradford&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=XJTXSt25OZOoNpTmsZkP#v=onepage&q=Roark%20Bradford&f=false|title=The Sound of Broadway Music : A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations|work=google.com|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref>
His stage adaption of ''John Henry'' appeared in [[New York City]] in 1940.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lOSvzYLs3tMC&dq=Roark+Bradford&pg=PA186| title=Louisiana: a guide to the state| author=Federal Writers' Project| publisher=US History Publishers| year=1947| isbn=978-1-60354-017-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPJZTJtz1IwC&dq=Roark+Bradford&pg=PA478|title=Out of Sight|isbn=9781604730395|accessdate=25 February 2015|last1=Abbott|first1=Lynn|last2=Seroff|first2=Doug|date=18 September 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8Gk-kEZ2NcC&dq=Roark+Bradford&pg=PA445|title=The Sound of Broadway Music : A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations|isbn=978-0-19-971882-5|accessdate=25 February 2015|last1=Suskin|first1=Steven|date=8 April 2009}}</ref>


His work appeared in ''Collier's'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&q=Roark%20Bradford%20colliers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wp|title=Roark Bradford colliers - Google Search|work=google.com|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref> ''Harper's'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpers.org/subjects/RoarkBradford|title=Roark Bradford|work=harpers.org|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref> and ''Virginia Quarterly Review'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvQRAAAAMAAJ&q=Roark+Bradford&dq=Roark+Bradford&lr=&as_brr=0&ei=25vXSta4HJzENbK28Y0P|title=The Virginia Quarterly Review|work=google.com|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref>
His work appeared in ''Collier's'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&q=Roark%20Bradford%20colliers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wp|title=Roark Bradford colliers - Google Search|work=google.com|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref> ''Harper's'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpers.org/subjects/RoarkBradford|title=Roark Bradford|work=harpers.org|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref> and ''Virginia Quarterly Review'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvQRAAAAMAAJ&q=Roark+Bradford|title=The Virginia Quarterly Review|work=google.com|year=1931|accessdate=25 February 2015}}</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==
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* ''How Come Christmas'' 1930, reprinted Harpers & Brothers, 1948 ({{cite book| title=reprint| publisher=Cherokee Pub| year=1987| isbn=978-0-87797-208-2 }}
* ''How Come Christmas'' 1930, reprinted Harpers & Brothers, 1948 ({{cite book| title=reprint| publisher=Cherokee Pub| year=1987| isbn=978-0-87797-208-2 }}
* {{cite book| title=Ol' King David an' the Philistine Boys | publisher=Harper & Brothers| year=1930 }}
* {{cite book| title=Ol' King David an' the Philistine Boys | publisher=Harper & Brothers| year=1930 }}
* ''John Henry'' 1931 ''Reprint'' {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7hbFnHc_wcgC&pg=PP1&dq=Roark+Bradford+john+henry&lr=&as_brr=0&ei=w53XSoSSLoTAM9-tnK8F#v=onepage&q=&f=false| title=John Henry: Roark Bradford's novel and play| editor=Steven Carl Tracy| publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2008| isbn=978-0-19-537104-8 }}
* ''John Henry'' 1931 ''Reprint'' {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7hbFnHc_wcgC&dq=Roark+Bradford+john+henry&pg=PP1| title=John Henry: Roark Bradford's novel and play| editor=Steven Carl Tracy| publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2008| isbn=978-0-19-537104-8 }}
* {{cite book| title=Kingdom coming | publisher=Harper & Brothers| year=1933 }}
* {{cite book| title=Kingdom coming | publisher=Harper & Brothers| year=1933 }}
* ''Let the Band Play Dixie'' 1934 ({{cite book| title=reprint| publisher=Books for Libraries Press| year=1970 | isbn=978-0-8369-3612-4 }})
* ''Let the Band Play Dixie'' 1934 ({{cite book| title=reprint| publisher=Books for Libraries Press| year=1970 | isbn=978-0-8369-3612-4 }})
* {{cite book| title=The Three-Headed Angel| publisher=Harper & brothers| year=1937 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Three-Headed Angel| publisher=Harper & brothers| year=1937 }}
* ''The Green Room'', Harper & Brothers, 1949
* ''The Green Room'', Harper & Brothers, 1949
*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCDI5Md1WpUC&pg=PA391&dq=Roark+Bradford&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=y3_XSo_yEZm8M8WA1aEP#v=onepage&q=Roark%20Bradford&f=false| chapter=The Birth of John Henry| title=A treasury of Afro-American folklore| editor=Harold Courlander| publisher=Marlowe & Company| year=2003| isbn=978-1-56924-501-9 }}
*{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCDI5Md1WpUC&dq=Roark+Bradford&pg=PA391| chapter=The Birth of John Henry| title=A treasury of Afro-American folklore| editor=Harold Courlander| publisher=Marlowe & Company| year=2003| isbn=978-1-56924-501-9 }}
*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVcPsL-OzkQC&pg=PA83&dq=Roark+Bradford&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=y3_XSo_yEZm8M8WA1aEP#v=onepage&q=Roark%20Bradford&f=false| chapter=The Private World of William Faulkner| title=Conversations with William Faulkner| editor=M. Thomas Inge| publisher=University Press of Mississippi| year=1999| isbn=978-1-57806-136-5 }}
*{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVcPsL-OzkQC&dq=Roark+Bradford&pg=PA83| chapter=The Private World of William Faulkner| title=Conversations with William Faulkner| editor=M. Thomas Inge| publisher=University Press of Mississippi| year=1999| isbn=978-1-57806-136-5 }}


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Novelists from Tennessee]]
[[Category:Novelists from Tennessee]]
[[Category:American male short story writers]]
[[Category:American male short story writers]]
[[Category:O. Henry Award winners]]
[[Category:Tulane University faculty]]
[[Category:Tulane University faculty]]
[[Category:Deaths from dysentery]]
[[Category:Deaths from dysentery]]
[[Category:American military personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:United States Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:20th-century American short story writers]]
[[Category:20th-century American short story writers]]
[[Category:Novelists from Louisiana]]
[[Category:Novelists from Louisiana]]
[[Category:United States Army officers]]
[[Category:United States Navy personnel killed in World War II]]
[[Category:United States Navy reservists]]
[[Category:Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters]]

Revision as of 02:01, 12 May 2024

Roark Bradford
Bradford around 1928
Born
Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford

(1896-08-21)August 21, 1896
Lauderdale County, Tennessee
DiedNovember 13, 1948(1948-11-13) (aged 52)
New Orleans, Louisiana
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
Occupationwriter
Spouse(s)Lydia Sehorn, Mary Rose Sciarra Himler

Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford (August 21, 1896, Lauderdale County, Tennessee — November 13, 1948, New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

He attended University of California, Berkeley, and served as a first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery during World War I.[1]

He married Lydia Sehorn, divorcing her in July 1933 after having only son Richard Bradford. He then married Mary Rose Sciarra Himler, also a writer, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He was night city editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Bradford continued to produce well-received work during the 1930s and early 1940s. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve Bureau of Aeronautics Training during World War II. In 1946, he accepted a position as visiting lecturer in the English department at Tulane University in New Orleans.

On November 13, 1948, he died of amoebiasis, believed to have been contracted while he was stationed in French West Africa in 1943. His cremated remains were spread over the waters of the Mississippi River.

At the time of his death, Bradford's writings were very popular. Since the 1940s, however, much of his body of work has been reevaluated. Many criticize his work (as a white author) as patronizing and demeaning in its portrayal of black characters.[2]

Marc Connelly adapted Ol' Man Adam and his Chillun for the stage as The Green Pastures, which won a Pulitzer Prize.[3]

His stage adaption of John Henry appeared in New York City in 1940.[4][5][6]

His work appeared in Collier's,[7] Harper's,[8] and Virginia Quarterly Review,[9]

Awards

Works

  • Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun. Harper & Row. 1928.
  • This Side of Jordan. Harper & brothers. 1929.
  • How Come Christmas 1930, reprinted Harpers & Brothers, 1948 (reprint. Cherokee Pub. 1987. ISBN 978-0-87797-208-2.
  • Ol' King David an' the Philistine Boys. Harper & Brothers. 1930.
  • John Henry 1931 Reprint Steven Carl Tracy, ed. (2008). John Henry: Roark Bradford's novel and play. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-537104-8.
  • Kingdom coming. Harper & Brothers. 1933.
  • Let the Band Play Dixie 1934 (reprint. Books for Libraries Press. 1970. ISBN 978-0-8369-3612-4.)
  • The Three-Headed Angel. Harper & brothers. 1937.
  • The Green Room, Harper & Brothers, 1949
  • Harold Courlander, ed. (2003). "The Birth of John Henry". A treasury of Afro-American folklore. Marlowe & Company. ISBN 978-1-56924-501-9.
  • M. Thomas Inge, ed. (1999). "The Private World of William Faulkner". Conversations with William Faulkner. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-136-5.

References

  1. ^ Eva Mae Burkett, ed. (1978). American English dialects in literature. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-1151-5.
  2. ^ url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3412
  3. ^ Flora, Joseph M.; Vogel, Amber (September 1980). Southern Writers. ISBN 9780807103906. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  4. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1947). Louisiana: a guide to the state. US History Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60354-017-9.
  5. ^ Abbott, Lynn; Seroff, Doug (18 September 2009). Out of Sight. ISBN 9781604730395. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  6. ^ Suskin, Steven (8 April 2009). The Sound of Broadway Music : A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations. ISBN 978-0-19-971882-5. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Roark Bradford colliers - Google Search". google.com. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  8. ^ "Roark Bradford". harpers.org. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  9. ^ "The Virginia Quarterly Review". google.com. 1931. Retrieved 25 February 2015.

External links

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