30 Facts About Bruno Maddox

Bruno Maddox wrote My Little Blue Dress between 1999 and 2001.

Bruno Maddox is likewise a contributing editor to the American edition of The Week magazine.

Bruno Maddox has one sister, Bronwen Maddox, who became a journalist, was Chief Foreign Commentator of The Times and Editor of Prospect magazine and is Director of the Institute for Government.

Bruno Maddox enjoyed a privileged life during his childhood and youth, because of his father's position as editor of Nature, encountering some of the leading scientific thinkers of the day and enjoying dinners with figures such as James Watson and Sir Fred Hoyle.

Bruno Maddox went on to study English literature at Harvard University and graduated in 1992.

Bruno Maddox published his only article in the student newspaper The Harvard Crimson during his senior year.

Bruno Maddox won the undergraduate Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for his senior thesis "on the use of adjectives in restaurant menus" titled Maltese: A Gastrosophic Theory of Reading.

Bruno Maddox's freelance writing career began in 1994, when he became a book reviewer for The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post, where he developed a reputation for writing scathing reviews that would later help him land a job as an editor at Spy magazine.

Bruno Maddox described his book reviewing style as "pretty vicious", and quipped that he "was a frustrated, twenty-something guy, sitting in his bedroom venting existential rage on these nasty academics".

At the beginning of the dot-com boom, Bruno Maddox found full-time work at an information technology company, where he worked for a year and a half.

In mid-1996, Bruno Maddox was hired as a senior editor at Spy magazine, a satirical monthly, in New York City.

At Spy, Bruno Maddox was assisted by deputy editor Adam Lehner, a satirist.

In December 1996, Bruno Maddox was promoted to editor-in-chief; his editorial team included Jared Paul Stern and, beginning in late 1997, future screenwriter William Monahan.

Bruno Maddox wanted to turn Spy into a national magazine rather than build on its legacy of covering stories that centered on New York.

Bruno Maddox conceded that "a satirical magazine in New York in the late Nineties really had no function", because "everyone was being very modest and coy".

In 1999, Bruno Maddox sold the advance rights to his first novel, My Little Blue Dress, to a German publisher based on a five-page fax proposal he sent on the advice of his literary agent John Brockman.

The protagonist is a fictional Bruno Maddox who is desperately attempting to create a forgery of an old woman's memoir in a single night.

The novel's intrigue lies in the mysterious reason compelling the fictional Bruno Maddox to forge a memoir.

The New York Times' Emily Barton conceded that "for all its blunders", Bruno Maddox delivers "a winsome and vastly entertaining novel".

Several years later, Bruno Maddox gave some indication that he was working on a film adaptation of My Little Blue Dress, but it is unknown whether he completed the script.

Since 2001, Bruno Maddox has written numerous articles for popular magazines, such as the now-defunct GEAR.

Wenclas later derided Bruno Maddox for distorting the Underground Literary Alliance in his BlackBook essay and summed up the article as "riddled with falsehoods".

In late 2003, Bruno Maddox began to contribute articles regularly to Travel + Leisure.

Bruno Maddox reviewed several books for The New York Post in 2004 and 2005.

In 2006, Bruno Maddox began contributing a regular humor column called "Blinded by Science" to Discover magazine.

Bruno Maddox's writing draws upon his childhood exposure to science; due to his father's career, his family was immersed in science and he was regularly exposed to scientists at social events.

Bruno Maddox's Discover columns are occasionally criticized; his essay "Fictional Reality", in particular, has been controversial.

Bruno Maddox declared science fiction obsolete in his essay "Fictional Reality" and was roundly criticized in the blogosphere, most notably by Scientific American's JR Minkel.

Minkel lambasted Bruno Maddox and pointed to author Neal Stephenson's cutting-edge work as proof to the contrary, venturing that "science fiction writers can dictate the future if they have the vim and vision".

In conclusion, Bruno Maddox derides the views held by several critics, stating that in comparison to Watson's statements, "the most ignorant and hurtful idea of all, of course, is that the entire topic of race and genes and intelligence is off-limits to all right-thinking, compassionate people, just on principle", which pejoratively assumes "that some races are innately and immutably much less intelligent than others".