MALCOLM BRADBURY
Born in 1932 in Sheffield, Bradbury was the son
of a railwayman; his family moved to London in 1935,
but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother. The family later
moved to Nottingham and in 1943 Bradbury attended West Bridgford
Grammar School where he remained until 1950. He read English at University
College, Leicester and gained a first-class degree in English in 1953 and
continued his studies at Queen Mary College, University of London, where he
gained his M.A. in 1955. Between 1955 and 1958 Bradbury moved between teaching
posts with the University of Manchester and Indiana University in the USA. He
returned to England in 1958 for a major heart operation; such was his heart
condition that he was not expected to live beyond middle age. Meanwhile,
Bradbury completing his first novel Eating People is Wrong
in 1959 while in hospital.
He
married Elizabeth Salt, with whom he would later have two sons, and took up his
first teaching post as an adult-education tutor at the University of Hull. With
his study on Evelyn Waugh in 1962 he began his career of writing and editing
critical books. From 1961 to 1965 he taught at the University of Birmingham. He
completed his Manchester University Ph.D. in American studies in 1962, moving
to the University of East Anglia (his second novel, Stepping Westward,
appeared in 1965), where he became Professor of American Studies in 1970 and
launched the World-renowned M.A. in Creative Writing course, which Ian McEwan
and Kazuo Ishiguro both attended. He published Possibilities: Essays on the
State of the Novel in 1973, The History Man in 1975, Who Do You Think You Are? in
1976, Rates of Exchange in 1983, Cuts: A Very Short Novel in
1987, retiring from academic life in 1995. Malcolm Bradbury became a Commander
of the British Empire in 1991 for services to Literature, and was knighted in
2000.
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