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Malcolm Bradbury

A writer and teacher, Bradbury founded the creative writing school at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. The school turned out such writers as Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan. Bradbury himself wrote novels, 40 books of literary criticism, and numerous short stories and television scripts. He was made a Commander in the British Empire in 1991 and knighted earlier this year. Sir Malcolm Bradbury died November 27 from cryptogenic organizing pneumonia. He was 68.

From This is True for 26 November 2000

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