Scott Michael Bradfield (born 27 April 1955) is an American essayist, critic and fiction writer who resides in

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, England. He has taught at the

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, the

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and

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and has reviewed for ''

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'' and ''

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''. He is best known, however, for his short stories, of which he has had four collections published. The 1998 film ''

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'', for which he wrote the screenplay, was based on his first novel, ''The History of Luminous Motion'' (1989). Bradfield also operates a public

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, where he uploads videos on a variety of books and literary topics. Bradfield currently teaches a
St. Mary's University
and

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Bibliography

Novels

* * * ''Animal Planet'' New York: Picador USA, 1995. * ''Good Girl Wants It Bad'' New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. * ''The People Who Watched Her Pass By'' Columbus, Ohio:

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, 2010. * * ''Dazzle Resplendent: Adventures of a Misanthropic Dog'': 2016,

Short fiction

;Collections * ''The Secret Life of Houses'' London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. * ''Dream of the Wolf'' New York: Knopf, 1990. * ''Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories'' New York: Picador USA, 1996. * ''Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance'' New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

Criticism

''Dreaming Revolution: Transgression in the Development of American Romance''
Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 1993. * ''Why I Hate Toni Morrison's Beloved'': First presented as the Seymour Fischer Lecture at the

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, on January 17, 2001. It was revised and expanded and published in the ''

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'' and later reprinted onlin

Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (2016):

References

External links

* *Enote
'Bradfield, Scott Introduction'
*Strong, Benjami
'The Gloriously Irresponsible Career of Scott Bradfield'
*Bradfield, Scot

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