MALCOLM BRADBURY writer and critic

CHRONOLOGY

  • Malcolm Bradbury
  • Malcolm Bradbury
  • Malcolm Bradbury
  • Malcolm Bradbury
  • Malcolm Bradbury
  • Malcolm Bradbury
  • Malcolm Bradbury

CHRONOLOGY Malcolm Bradbury

1932
Born in Sheffield, England, to Arthur & Doris Bradbury.
1935
Brother Basil Bradbury is born.
1943-50
Attends West Bridgford Grammar School in Nottingham.
1950
Arrives at University College Leicester.
1952-53
Student editor of Luciad magazine at University College Leicester.
1953
Graduates from University College Leicester with first class honours
 
in English Language and Literature.
 
Enrolls for MA at Queen Mary College, University of London.
1955
Completes an MA in English Literature at Queen Mary College,
 
University of London, with a thesis on English Periodicals and their
 
Relation to Modern English Literature, 1900-1950.
1955-56
Attends Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
1957
Visiting Fellow at the Salzburg Seminar.
1956-58
Attends Manchester University.
1958-59
Attends Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
1959
Marries Elizabeth Bradbury, librarian.
 
First novel, Eating People Is Wrong, is published.
1959-61
Moves to Yorkshire with Elizabeth and becomes a Staff Tutor in
 
Literature & Drama at the Department of Education, University
 
of Hull.
1961-65
Moves to Birmingham, where he is appointed Lecturer in English
 
Language & Literature at the University of Birmingham. Meets David
 
and Mary Lodge.
1962
Completes his PHD in American Studies with the University of
 
Manchester, with a thesis on American Literary Expatriates in Europe,
 
1810-1950.
1964
First son, Matthew Bradbury, born in Birmingham.
1965
Moves to Norwich and buys a Georgian home in Heigham Grove.
 
Appointed Senior Lecturer & Reader in English & American
 
Literature at the University of East Anglia (UEA), where he
 
remains for the rest of his academic career.
 
Second novel, Stepping Westward, is published.
1966
Visting Professor at the Univeristy of California, Davis, California.
 
Founds the American Studies programme at the UEA.
1968
Second son, Dominic Bradbury, born in Norwich.
1969
Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
1970
Appointed Professor of American Studies at the UEA and – with Angus Wilson – co-founds the UEA's MA course in Creative Writing.
1971
Publication of first solo book of criticism, The Social Context
 
of Modern English Literature.
1972
Visiting Professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
1975
Publication of The History Man, awarded Royal Society of Literature
 
Heinemann Award.
 
First television play, The After Dinner Game, written with Chris Bigsby, airs on the BBC.
1976
Modernism, edited with Professor J.W. McFarlane, is published.
1980
Television series of The History Man, adapted by Christopher
 
Hampton, screened by the BBC.
1981
Chair of Judges, Booker Prize for Fiction.
1982
Fanny Hurst Professor (visiting) at Washington University, St Louis,
 
Missouri.
1983
Publication of Rates of Exchange, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
 
Davis Professor (visiting) at the University of Queensland, Australia,
 
and Visiting Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
1984
Publication of The Modern American Novel.
1985
Death of Arthur Bradbury.
 
Adaptation of Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape screened by BBC.
1986
Death of Basil Bradbury.
1987
Adaptation of Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue aired by Channel 4,
 
starring David Jason, awarded Emmy Award.
1989
Anglia TV airs first 'television novel': Anything More Would be
 
Greedy.
1990
Adaptation of Kingsley Amis' The Green Man, starring Albert Finney,
 
aired by BBC.
 
Becomes a part-time Professor of Creative Writing at the UEA.
1991
Made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE).
1991-92
The Gravy Train & The Gravy Train Goes East aired by Channel 4.
1992
Publication of Doctor Criminale.
1993-95
Appointed Professorial Fellow, UEA.
1993
Publication of The Modern British Novel.
 
Death of Doris Bradbury.
1994
Senior Visiting Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.
1995
Appointed Professor Emeritus, UEA, after retiring from the UEA to
 
write full time.
 
BBC airs adaptation of Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm, starring
 
Kate Beckinsale. Also released as a feature film.
1996
First episodes of A Touch of Frost air on ITV, followed by episodes
 
of Inspector Morse, Dalziel & Pascoe and others.
 
First performance of the play Inside Trading at the Norwich
 
Playhouse.
1997
Visiting Wells Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
 
Chairman of Judges for the Whitbread Prize.
2000
Knighted for services to Literature in the New Years Honours list.
 
Publication of last completed novel, To the Hermitage.
 
Dies in Norwich in November of Crytogenic Organising
 
Pneumonia.
2006
Posthumous publication of collected writings, including fragment of
 
an unfinished novel, Liar's Landscape.
 

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