![Kelwona, BC.-- Canadian author Alan Bradley in Kelowna, B.C. on February 12, 2009. He has published many children's stories as well as lifestyle and arts columns in Canadian newspapers. His adult stories have been broadcast on CBC Radio and published in various literary journals. He won the first Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award for Children's Literature. Delacorte Press will publish the next in Bradley's delirious new series, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag.(Jeff Bassett for the Globe and Mail)](Images/00004.jpeg)
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ALAN BRADLEY is the internationally bestselling author of many short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award.