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Malcolm Bradbury Biography (1932-2000)

Full name, Malcolm Stanley Bradbury; born September 7, 1932, in Sheffield, England; son of Arthur and Doris Ethel (Marshall) Bradbury; married Elizabeth Salt, October, 1959; children: Matthew, Dominic. Addresses: Office: School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, England.; Agent: John Cushman Associates, Inc., 25 West 43rd St., New York, NY 10036.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

writer, critic

Birth Details

September 7, 1932

Sheffield, England

Death Details

November 27, 2000

Norwich, England

Famous Works

• Credits; Plays
• (With David Lodge and James Duckett) Between These Four Walls (stage revue), first produced in Birmingham, England, 1963.
• (With Lodge, Duckett, and David Turner) Slap in the Middle (stagerevue), first produced in Birmingham, England, 1965.
• Congress (radio play), BBC, 1980.
• Co-author of the radio play This Sporting Life, 1974-75.
• Credits; Television Plays
• (With Chris Bigsby) The After Dinner Game (also see below), BBC, 1975.
• (With Bigsby) Stones, BBC, 1976.
• Love on a Gunboat, BBC, 1977.
• The Enigma (based on a story by John Fowles), BBC, 1980.
• Standing In for Henry, BBC, 1980.
• Credits; Other Television Writings
• Rates of Exchange (series; based on his novel of the same name; also see below), BBC, 1985.
• Blott on the Landscape (series; adapted from a novel by Tom Sharpe), BBC, 1985.
• Porterhouse Blue (adapted from work by Sharpe), Channel 4, 1987.
• The Green Man (movie; based on novel by Kingsley Amis), A&E, 1991.
• Also author of Imaginary Friends (adapted from work by Alison Lurie), 1987, and writer for the serials Anything More Would Be Greedy, 1989, and The Gravy Train, 1990.

Further Reference

Books

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volume 33, Gale, 1991.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 32, Gale, 1985.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 14: British Novelists since 1960, 2 parts, Gale, 1983.