Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 (Penguin Literary Criticism)
Malcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.   He is author of the novelsEating People is Wrong(1959);Stepping Westward(1965);The History Man(1975); which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and was adapted as a famous television series;Rates of Exchange(1983) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize;Cuts: A Very Short Novel(1987), also televised; andDoctor Criminale(1992).  His critical works includeThe Modern American Novel(1984; revised edition, 1992);No, Not Bloomsbury(essays, 1987);The Modern world: Ten Great Writers(1988);From Puritanism to Post-modernism: A History of American Literature(with Richard Ruland, 1991) He is the author of a collection of seven stories and nine parodies, entitledWho Do You Think You Are?(1976), and of several works of humour and satire, includingWhy Come to Slaka?(1986),Unsent Letters(1988; revised edition, 1995) andMensonge(1987).  Many of his books are published by Penguin.  In addition, he has written many television plays and the television 'novel'The Gravy TrainandThe Gravy Train Goes East.  He has adapted several television series, including Tom Sharpe'sPorterhouse Blue, Kinglsey Amis'sThe Green Manand Stella Gibbon's'Cold Comfort Farm, now a feature film.Malcolm Bradbury lives in Norwich, travels good deal, and in 1991 he was awarded the CBE.