Scott Bradfield

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Scott Michael Bradfield (born April 27, 1955 in San Francisco , California , USA ) is an American writer and university professor.

Life

Bradfield holds a PhD in American Literature from the University of California, Irvine . He has taught at the University of California and the University of Connecticut . He became known for his short stories, which have so far appeared in four edited volumes, but also writes reviews for magazines and newspapers. He wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film Luminous Motion using his first 1989 novel The History of Luminous Motion .

Bradfield's horror story The "Flash" Kid was published in 1984 in Volume 12 of The Year's Best Horror Stories .

Bradfield currently lives in London, where he teaches at Kingston University and the City Literary Institute .

Publications

  • 1989: The History of Luminous Motion . Bloomsbury, London, ISBN 0-7475-0343-5 . New edition: Calamari Press, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-0-9831633-2-9 .
  • 1993: Dreaming Revolution: Transgression in the Development of American Romance . University of Iowa Press, 1993, ISBN 0-87745-395-0 .
  • 1994: What's Wrong with America . St. Martin's Press, New York City, USA, ISBN 0-312-11349-8 .
    • German by Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf-Allié: What's wrong with America? , Novel. Ammann, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-250-10231-8 .
    • as Fischer Taschenbuch, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13167-7 .
  • Animal Planet . Picador, New York City, USA 1995, ISBN 0-312-13428-2 .
    • German by Manfred Allié: Planet of the animals , Roman. Ammann, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-250-10328-4 .
    • as Fischer Taschenbuch, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-14025-0 .
  • Good Girl Wants It Bad . Carroll & Graf, New York City, USA 2004, ISBN 0-7867-1338-0 .
    • German by Manfred Allié: Good girls have a hard time , Ammann, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-250-60070-9 .
  • The People Who Watched Her Pass By . Two Dollar Radio, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2010, ISBN 978-0-9820151-5-5 .
    • German by Manfred Allié: The people who saw them go by , Roman. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7017-1603-6 .
Collections of short stories
  • 1989: The Secret Life of Houses . Unwin Hyman, London, ISBN 0-04-440241-4 .
  • 1990: Dream of the Wolf . Knopf, New York City, USA, ISBN 0-394-58213-6 .
  • 1996: Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories . Picador, New York City, USA, ISBN 0-312-14088-6 .
    • German by Manfred Allié: Undoubtedly the best , stories. Ammann, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-250-10329-2 .
  • Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance . Carroll & Graf, New York City, USA 2005, ISBN 0-7867-1576-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sal lives in the laundromat , in: FAZ of June 27, 2013, p. 26
personal data
SURNAME Bradfield, Scott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradfield, Scott Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California , USA