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AUTHOR DAVID BRADLEY TO READ FROM FICTION, LECTURE AT OBERLIN COLLEGE APRIL 2 AND 3
MARCH 23, 2001--David Bradley, author of South Street (1975) and the Chaneysville Incident (1982), will be on the Oberlin College campus Monday, April 2, and Tuesday, April 3. Bradley will present a reading of his fiction Monday at 7:30 P.M., in King 106. On Tuesday he will deliver a lecture, "The Function of Lynching in Contemporary Society," in Wilder 101 at 4:45 P.M. Both events are free and open to the public.
The Chaneysville Incident has been praised by The Christian Science Monitor as a book that "rivals Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon as the best novel about the Black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man," and subsequently was awarded the 1982 PEN/Faulkner Prize and an Academy Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Other critics have compared the novel's narrative power to Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, and its scope and vision to Alex Haley's Roots.
Bradley is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America, and the author of many screenplays and essays. He is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is working on a book of non-fiction, "The Bondage Hypothesis: Meditations on Race, History, and America."
The Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, the Department of African American Studies, and the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences are sponsoring Bradley's campus visit.
Media Contact: Sue Kropp
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