Malcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is author of the novels
Eating People is Wrong (1959);
Stepping Westward (1965);
The History Man (1975); which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and was adapted as a famous television series;
Rates of Exchange (1983) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize;
Cuts: A Very Short Novel (1987), also televised; and
Doctor Criminale (1992). His critical works include
The Modern American Novel (1984; revised edition, 1992);
No, Not Bloomsbury (essays, 1987);
The Modern world: Ten Great Writers (1988);
From Puritanism to Post-modernism: A History of American Literature (with Richard Ruland, 1991) He is the author of a collection of seven stories and nine parodies, entitled
Who Do You Think You Are? (1976), and of several works of humour and satire, including
Why Come to Slaka? (1986),
Unsent Letters (1988; revised edition, 1995) and
Mensonge (1987). Many of his books are published by Penguin. In addition, he has written many television plays and the television 'novel'
The Gravy Train and
The Gravy Train Goes East. He has adapted several television series, including Tom Sharpe's
Porterhouse Blue, Kinglsey Amis's
The Green Man and Stella Gibbon's'
Cold Comfort Farm, now a feature film.
Malcolm Bradbury lives in Norwich, travels good deal, and in 1991 he was awarded the CBE.