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Joan Brady

Joan Brady was born on 4 December 1939 in San Francisco, California, USA, daugther to Mildred Edie Brady and Robert A. Brady. She has one sister, Judy. She was a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and the New York City Ballet, a story she tells in her highly-acclaimed autobiography The Unmaking of a Dancer. Then she went on to study philosophy at Columbia University in New York. In 1963, she married author Dexter Masters, her mother's secret lover. Together they had a son, Alexander Masters, who authored Stuart, A Life Backwards.

She currently lives in Oxford, England. She was the first woman to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award (now Costa) with Theory of War, she is also the author of short stories, articles, reviews, and suspense novels.

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Born 04 December 1939

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  • Cover of: Bleedout: a novel

    Cover of edition bleedout0000brad Cover of edition bleedoutnovel00brad First published in 2005 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: Theory of war

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  • Cover of: Prologue

    First published in 1994 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The unmaking of a dancer: an unconventional life

    First published in 1982 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The imposter

    First published in 1979 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Death comes for Peter Pan

    First published in 1996 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Dios vuelve en una Harley

    First published in 1999 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The blue death

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  • Cover of: Joan Brady: paintings.

    First published in 1990 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Peter Pan est mort

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  • Cover of: Prologue an Unconventional Life

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  • Cover of: Teoria de La Guerra

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  • Cover of: The emigré

    First published in 2000 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Venom

    First published in 2010 — 1 edition
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Born 04 December 1939

Subjects

Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Business intelligence, Ex-convicts, International business enterprises, Women physicists, Ballerines, Ballet dancers, Biographies, Biography, Children's fiction, Corruption, Crimes against, Dancers, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, general, History, Illinois, fiction, Lawyers, Lawyers, fiction, Man-woman relationships, Medicine in Literature

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United States, Illinois, London (England), Middle West, Springfield, Springfield (Ill.)

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Joan Brady

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1865-

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Alternative names

  • Joan Brady Masters
  • Joan Brady

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September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
June 7, 2012 Edited by CGN Edited without comment.
June 7, 2012 Edited by CGN Added new photo
August 24, 2011 Created by LC Bot import new book