Brady, Joan
BRADY, Joan
BRADY, Joan. American/British, b. 1939. Genres: Novels. Career: Writer. Dancer with San Francisco Ballet, 1955-58, and NYC Ballet, 1960. National Endowment of the Arts, 1986; Whitbread Novel of the Year, 1992; Whitbread Book of the Year, 1993; Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger, 1995. Publications: The Imposter, 1979; The Unmaking of a Dancer, 1982 (in U.K., rev., as Prologue, 1994); Theory of War, 1992; Death Comes for Peter Pan, 1995; The Emigre, 1999.
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