George Bradley (b. 1953)

George Bradley was born in Roslyn, New York in 1953. He received his B.A. from Yale, and took his master’s degree at the University of Virginia. Bradley has worked as a construction foreman, a sommelier and an advertising copywriter. His books include Terms to Be Met (1986), Of the Knowledge of Evil (1991), and Some Assembly Required (2001). He won the Peter I. B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets in 1978, the Yale Younger Poets Prize from Yale University Press in 1985, and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He was also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant.

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The Fire Fetched Down