Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, was an English author and academic.
14 Facts About Malcolm Bradbury
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Malcolm Bradbury's family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother.
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The family later moved to Nottingham and in 1943 Malcolm Bradbury attended West Bridgford Grammar School, where he remained until 1950.
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Malcolm Bradbury read English at University College, Leicester, gaining a first-class degree in 1953.
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Malcolm Bradbury continued his studies at Queen Mary College, University of London, where he gained his MA in 1955.
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Between 1955 and 1958 Malcolm Bradbury moved between teaching posts with the University of Manchester and Indiana University in the United States.
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Malcolm Bradbury 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.
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Malcolm Bradbury took up his first teaching post as an adult-education tutor at the University of Hull.
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Malcolm Bradbury completed his PhD in American studies at the University of Manchester in 1962, moving to the University of East Anglia, where he became Professor of American Studies in 1970 and launched the MA in Creative Writing course, attended by both Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Malcolm Bradbury became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 for services to literature and was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2000, again for services to literature.
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Malcolm Bradbury died at Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Colman Hospital, Norwich, attended by his wife and their two sons, Matthew and Dominic.
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Malcolm Bradbury was buried on 4 December 2000 in the churchyard of St Mary's parish church, Tasburgh, near Norwich where the Bradburys owned a second home.
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Malcolm Bradbury wrote extensively for television, including scripting series such as Anything More Would Be Greedy, The Gravy Train, and adapting novels such as Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue, Alison Lurie's Imaginary Friends, Kingsley Amis's The Green Man, and the penultimate Inspector Morse episode The Wench is Dead.
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Malcolm Bradbury's work was often humorous and ironic, mocking academe, British culture, and communism, usually with a picaresque tone.