Alan Bradley is a Canadian screenwriter, journalist and writer from Toronto.
Alan was educated in electronics. He collaborated with numerous radio stations and television stations in Ontario before becoming technical director of the University of Saskatchewan Media Center, where he worked for twenty-five years before retiring early in 1994.
Alan Bradley was a founding member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, and his children's works were published in the Children's Yearbook. For many years he
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Alan Bradley is a Canadian screenwriter, journalist and writer from Toronto.
Alan was educated in electronics. He collaborated with numerous radio stations and television stations in Ontario before becoming technical director of the University of Saskatchewan Media Center, where he worked for twenty-five years before retiring early in 1994.
Alan Bradley was a founding member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, and his children's works were published in the Children's Yearbook. For many years he was a teacher of scripting courses at the University of Saskatchewan. His fiction was published in literary magazines.
He was also the founder of Saskatoon, a society dedicated to the study of the letters of Sherlock Holmes. Here he met Dr. William Sargent, who helped him in the work “Ms. Holmes of Baker Street”, which was published in 1989. This book put forward the theory that Sherlock Holmes was a woman.
In retirement, the writer began to actively compose, his next work was the book “The Shoe Box Bible”, released in 2006. In this biographical work, the author told the story of his own youth in Southern Ontario, and created a vivid portrait of his own mother – an inspired and strong woman who struggled to raise three children on her own at a bad time.
In the summer of 2007, Alan Bradley was awarded the Debutant Dagger Award for his adventure novel Sweetness on a Crust of Pie. This award made the international community pay attention to the debut of Alan’s fiction. Translation rights were sold in twenty-nine countries, and the novel was published in thirty-three countries. And in 2009, the work was included in the top ten books in the style of thriller and mysticism. After that, Alan Bradley wrote and published several more books, among which were “Weed wrapped around the executioner’s bag” and “Smoked Herring without mustard”.