John Ed Bradley is the author of several highly praised novels, including Tupelo Nights and My Juliet. A former staff writer for the Washington Post, Bradley has contributed feature stories to Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and GQ. He lives at historic Coliseum Square in New Orleans's Lower Garden District.
Deftly mixes history, mystery and a little romance with serious questions of race and identity. . . . Entertaining . . . . Provocative and illuminating. --The Philadelphia Inquirer Compelling, complex characters doing interesting things while working through important emotional and philosophical issues--this is the stuff of genuine literature. . . . The narrative flows rich and smooth as chicory coffee at a Vieux Carre caf�. --Booklist [M]asterfully ties together fact and fiction, imagined artists and real, to create an understanding of Southern art in the 1930s and 1940s, and the society that art reflects. --Richmond Times-Dispatch Mr. Bradley brings clarity and a measured lyricism to the writing of fiction. --The New York Times Book Review