James Bradberry

James Bradberry is an award-winning architect and author.  A former Fulbright Fellow and Lusk Scholar, he studied architecture and history at Auburn, Penn, and Cambridge, and later taught at a half dozen architecture schools in the US and Canada.  His mystery novels, The Seventh Sacrament, Ruins of Civility, and Eakins’ Mistress, were published in US by St. Martin’s Press, and all received critical acclaim, including starred reviews in Publishers Weekly.  The books are in print in Europe, under the aegis of Polillo Editore and Hachette Livre.  In addition to his novels, Mr. Bradberry has written fiction, reviews, and articles for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, Philadelphia Architect, The American Library Association Journal, The Darwinian, and Domus.  His non-fiction book, The Power of Play, was published in 2014 by the American Library Association.  He lives in Philadelphia.