Brady Udall

__NOTOC__Brady Udall is an American novelist.

Brady grew up in a large Mormon family in St. Johns, Arizona. [ [http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/vls/175/verge.shtml#Udall Writers on the Verge] , The Village Voice, May 2001] He graduated from Brigham Young University and later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop."Udall Mints a Dickens of a Tale in 'Miracle Life'" by Brandon Griggs, "Salt Lake Tribune", 17 June 2001, ( [http://www.ldsfilm.com/announced/MiracleLife.html mirror of article] )] He was formerly a faculty member of Franklin & Marshall College [ [http://wwwdevel.fandm.edu/pressreleases/2003-04/063.html Press Release #063] dated 16 October 2003, Office of College Communications, Franklin & Marshall College] starting in 1998, [ [http://magazine.fandm.edu/summer03/su03_story1.html Franklin & Marshall magazine, Summer 2003] ] then Southern Illinois University, and now teaches writing at Boise State University. [ [http://www.boisestate.edu/english/mfa/ MFA Program in Creative Writing] , Boise State University, Last accessed 30 August 2007]

A collection of his short stories titled "Letting Loose the Hounds" (ISBN 039304033X) was published in 1998 [ [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/reviews/970302.02shepart.html Men Behaving Badly] by Jim Shepard, "The New York Times", 2 March 1997] and his debut novel "The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint" (ISBN 0393020363) was first published in 2001. The characterization and structure of the latter has been favorably compared to the work of John Irving. [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117860716.html "Cuesta pulls off 'Miracle' for UA, Cell"] by Michael Fleming, "Variety", 13 February 2002] Thematically it has been compared to Charles Dickens. Michael Stipe has optioned a film adaptation of "Miracle", with United Artists hiring Michael Cuesta to direct.

Brady recently appeared on an episode of "This American Life". [This American Life, Episode [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=336 336: Who Can You Save?] , Act 3, broadcast 6 July 2007.]

Brady is a member of the Udall family, and his great-uncles include former U.S. congressman and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and former congressman Morris Udall.

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Reviews

* [http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=28789&CISOSHOW=28767&REC=3 "Speaking of Edgar Mint"] , a review by P. Jane Hafen, "", Spring 2002, page 179
* [http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=8326&CISOSHOW=8310&REC=9 "Observing the New West"] (a review of "Letting Loose the Hounds") by John Bennion, "Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought", Winter 1998, page 237

Interviews

* [http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum53.html "Brady Udall] : Author of "Letting Loose the Hounds" talks with Robert Birnbaum", 21 July 2002 interview
* [http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=792 An Interview with Brady Udall] by BookBrowse

Academic analysis

* [http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=29604&CISOSHOW=29578&REC=6 "God, Man, and Satan in "The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint"] by Bradley D. Woodworth, "Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought", Summer 2003, page 225