- Brad Barkley
Brad Barkley is a fiction writer currently teaching at
Frostburg State University . He is known mostly for writing the book "". Barkley was born inGreensboro, North Carolina . He has two children, Lucas, 17, and Alex, 15. Barkley also has a half-beagle half-chihuahua dog , Nellie.Besides "Alison's Automotive Repair Manual", Barkley has also written "Money, Love"; "Another Perfect Catastrophe"; and "Circle View", and has co-written "Scrambled Eggs at Midnight". His novels have been translated into German, Japanese, and Portuguese. His short stories have been published in over 30 magazines, including the "
Southern Review ", "Virginia Quarterly Review " and "Glimmer Train ". He continues to write and is currently working on several books.Fact|date=February 2008In Barkley's work, his characters are intriguingly unique, such as a father who started a Christian
fat camp with the motto, "What Would Jesus Eat?" in "Scrambled Eggs at Midnight", and a man named Sugar who welds sculptures and then leaves them unused, lying around the yard, in "Another Perfect Catastrophe."He has won numerous awards, including four Individual Artist Awards from the
Maryland State Art's Council , and a creative writing fellowship from theNational Endowment for the Arts . [ [http://www.nea.gov/pub/nea_lit.pdf National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships] ]Notes
External links
* [http://www.bradbarkley.com Barkley's website]
* [http://www.bradheather.com Young Adult novels co-authored by Barkley]
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