David Bradley is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon and the author of South Street and The Chaneysville Incident, the latter of which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel also earned Bradley an Academy Award for literature. Bradley has published essays, book reviews, and interviews in periodicals and newspapers including Esquire, Redbook, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the New Yorker.

This celebrated novel about a black man's search for his past "rivals Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" as the best novel about the Black experience in America since Ellison's "Invisible Man.""-- "Christian Science Monitor"