Ken Bradbury
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General Information
Pen Name: N/A
Born: 1955 in Quincy, Illinois
Website: www.creativeideas.com
Email: ken@bradbury.cc
Photo Credit: Steve Warmowski Photography
Illinois Connection
Ken Bradbury was born in Quincy, Illinois and currently resides in Arenzville, Illinois. He graduated from Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1971.
Biographical and Professional Information
Ken Bradbury is an author of the Associated Press award-winning The Coonridge Digest, a newspaper column appearing in 14 newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. The column is the weekly observations of Freida Marie Crump, news correspondent from fictional Coonridge, Illinois. Bradbury has also written four books, The Coonridge Digest, Around the World with Frieda Marie Crump, The Coonridge Devotions and Homerville.
He is the author of over 100 plays and musicals. Along with co-author Robert Crowe, Bradbury won the Lincoln Library Award for the play “The Shadow of Giants.”
Bradbury taught at Triopia High School in Concord, Illinois for 35 years and has been honored with numerous awards including: the Country Companies/WICS Channel 20 Golden Apple Award for teaching, the Western Illinois University Friend of the Arts Award, the Illinois College McGaw Citation for Excellence in the Arts, and was named Outstanding High School Teacher by Eastern Illinois University. He also received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree by MacMurray College and an honorary Doctor of Letters by Illinois College. The Jacksonville Hall of Fame recipient was given the Studs Terkel Humanities Award by the Illinois Arts Council in 2004.
Published Works
- The Coonridge Digest, Consortium Publishing Company , 1994 (Written under the pen name Freida Marie Crump)
- The Coonridge Digest Around the World with Freida Marie Crump, Creative Ideas Press, 1997
- The Coonridge Devotions, Consortium Publishing Company, 2001
- Homerville, Consortium Publishing Company, 2005
Titles for Purchase and at Your Library
 | The Coonridge DigestISBN: 0964468107 Release Date: 1994-11-01 |
Around the World with Freida Marie CrumpISBN: 0964468123 Release Date: 1999-11-01 |
 | Coonridge DevotionsISBN: 0970717334 Release Date: 2001-10 |
homervilleISBN: 0974883018 Release Date: 2005-11-11 |
Literary Awards
Speaking Engagements and Upcoming Appearances
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