Arthur Houston Bradford (born November 19, 1969 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine) is an American short story

Short story

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 author

Author

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 and a director. He has had one book of short stories published, Dogwalker (Knopf ISBN 0-375-72669-1). He has won an O. Henry Award

O. Henry Award

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 and has had his stories published in Esquire

Esquire (magazine)

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, McSweeneys

Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

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, Zoetrope

Zoetrope: All-Story

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, Dazed & Confused

Dazed & Confused (magazine)

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, Tin House

Tin House

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, and BOMB. He was a contributor to the McSweeney's publication The Future Dictionary of America. He was a Wallace Stegner fellow

Stegner Fellowship

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 at Stanford University

Stanford University

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 and a James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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.

He was also the director of How's Your News?

How's Your News?

How's Your News? is an American television series and also a feature film. It aired Sundays on MTV in the United States, and the feature film based on the same concept was released in 2003. It stars a group of reporters with developmental disabilities who interview celebrities and politicians...

, a documentary wherein disabled and handicapped adults interview unsuspecting passersby in a cross-country road trip. The film was broadcast on HBO, PBS, and British

United Kingdom

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 channel, Channel 4

Channel 4

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. The concept was expanded and developed into a series for MTV

MTV

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 and broadcast throughout 2009. Bradford served as executive producer and director. Arthur and a "How's Your News" reporter were interviewed on the popular BBC podcast Ouch! He was also featured on NPR's This American Life in the "Special Ed" episode.

Since 2006, he has served as director of "Camp Jabberwocky", one of the longest running residential camps for adults with disabilities in the United States.

Bradford kept a blog in 2007-2008 about raising his daughter on babble.com. It was entitled "Diaper Bandit".

Arthur Bradford is a great-great-great-grandson of department-store magnate Abraham Abraham

Abraham Abraham

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 and also philanthropist Jacob Schiff

Jacob Schiff

Jacob Henry Schiff, born Jakob Heinrich Schiff was a German-born Jewish American banker and philanthropist, who helped finance, among many other things, the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.From his base on Wall Street, he was the foremost Jewish leader...

. He is the son of painter Katherine Bradford.

Katherine Bradford

Katherine Bradford is an American artist, primarily abstract painter. She attended Bryn Mawr College and holds and MFA from SUNY Purchase. Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum , and the Farnsworth Museum...

Bradford is also the director of 6 Days to Air, a documentary that depicts the making of an episode of South Park

South Park

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, which premiered on Comedy Central on October 9, 2011.

External Links

• http://artbradford.com/
• http://www.howsyournews.com/
• http://campjabberwocky.org/
• The Future Dictionary of America
• Diaper Bandit Blog