Roark Bradford

Roark Bradford
Bradford around 1928
Born
Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford

(1896-08-21)August 21, 1896
Lauderdale County, Tennessee
DiedNovember 13, 1948(1948-11-13) (aged 52)
New Orleans, Louisiana
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
Occupationwriter
Spouse(s)Lydia Sehorn, Mary Rose Sciarra Himler

Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford (August 21, 1896 – November 13, 1948) was an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

He attended University of California, Berkeley, and served as a first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery during World War I.[1]

He married Lydia Sehorn, divorcing her in July 1933 after having only son Richard Bradford. He then married Mary Rose Sciarra Himler, also a writer, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He was night city editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Bradford continued to produce well-received work during the 1930s and early 1940s. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve Bureau of Aeronautics Training during World War II. In 1946, he accepted a position as visiting lecturer in the English department at Tulane University in New Orleans.

On November 13, 1948, he died of amoebiasis, believed to have been contracted while he was stationed in French West Africa in 1943. His cremated remains were spread over the waters of the Mississippi River.

At the time of his death, Bradford's writings were very popular. Since the 1940s, however, much of his body of work has been reevaluated. Many criticize his work (as a white author) as patronizing and demeaning in its portrayal of black characters.[2]

Marc Connelly adapted Ol' Man Adam and his Chillun for the stage as The Green Pastures, which won a Pulitzer Prize.[3]

His stage adaption of John Henry appeared in New York City in 1940.[4][5][6]

His work appeared in Collier's,[7] Harper's,[8] and Virginia Quarterly Review,[9]

Awards

Works

  • Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun. Harper & Row. 1928.
  • This Side of Jordan. Harper & brothers. 1929.
  • How Come Christmas 1930, reprinted Harpers & Brothers, 1948 (reprint. Cherokee Pub. 1987. ISBN 978-0-87797-208-2.
  • Ol' King David an' the Philistine Boys. Harper & Brothers. 1930.
  • John Henry 1931 Reprint Steven Carl Tracy, ed. (2008). John Henry: Roark Bradford's novel and play. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-537104-8.
  • Kingdom coming. Harper & Brothers. 1933.
  • Let the Band Play Dixie 1934 (reprint. Books for Libraries Press. 1970. ISBN 978-0-8369-3612-4.)
  • The Three-Headed Angel. Harper & brothers. 1937.
  • The Green Room, Harper & Brothers, 1949
  • Harold Courlander, ed. (2003). "The Birth of John Henry". A treasury of Afro-American folklore. Marlowe & Company. ISBN 978-1-56924-501-9.
  • M. Thomas Inge, ed. (1999). "The Private World of William Faulkner". Conversations with William Faulkner. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-136-5.

References

  1. ^ Eva Mae Burkett, ed. (1978). American English dialects in literature. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-1151-5.
  2. ^ url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3412
  3. ^ Flora, Joseph M.; Vogel, Amber (September 1980). Southern Writers. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807103906. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  4. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1947). Louisiana: a guide to the state. US History Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60354-017-9.
  5. ^ Abbott, Lynn; Seroff, Doug (18 September 2009). Out of Sight. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781604730395. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  6. ^ Suskin, Steven (8 April 2009). The Sound of Broadway Music : A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-971882-5. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Roark Bradford colliers - Google Search". google.com. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  8. ^ "Roark Bradford". harpers.org. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  9. ^ "The Virginia Quarterly Review". google.com. 1931. Retrieved 25 February 2015.

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