Tom Bradley was born in Utah during the era of above-ground hydrogen bomb tests, and claims to recollect seeing fallout in the air during kindergarten. In later life he met Edward Teller, inventor of the latter device, and was told "We had arms limitation from the very beginning. It commenced already with the second detonation." nthposition online magazine: A sense of no place He lived in the People's Republic of China for many years and lost friends in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Gadfly Online

The author has stated that as an unintended victim of US nuclear testing, nthposition online magazine: My public ministry among the heathen he gravitated to Hiroshima McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Holiday in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, identity theory | alphabet zen - "the bloodsucker of nagasaki" by tom bradley where his books and articles are stridently critical of the Japanese educational system. Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life Salon Books | Turning Japanese In the opinion of Israeli journalist Barry Katz, who writes for AM Magazine in Paris, Tom Bradley deliberately courts controversy: "He does seem bent on leaving absolutely nobody unpissed-off. His venom’s no less ecumenical than gratuitous." Rain Taxi Review of Books expresses the notion as follows: "As proof of his leaving no one un-offended, he's been nudged out of every university where he has taught. For the past two decades he has lived the life of an ex-pat laugh assassin, tucked away in a volcanic mountain on the island of Kyushu".

NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse Journal goes even further, referring to Tom Bradley's "megalomaniacal urge for public self-annihilation... [and] his unwholesome Christ complex." However, in composing the Critical Appendix for Fission Among the Fanatics, Advocate writer Cye Johan arrived at a very different set of conclusions regarding his personal motivations: "I tell you that Dr. Bradley has devoted his existence to writing because he intends for every center of consciousness, everywhere, in all planes and conditions (not just terrestrial female Homo sapiens in breeding prime), to love him forever, starting as soon as possible, though he's prepared to wait thousands of centuries after he's dead".

He claims paternal descent from a loose clan of very large Mormon handcart pioneers who were excommunicated almost immediately upon arriving in Deseret. It is from this lineage that Tom Bradley has inherited his "whole hefty metabolism" and his remarkable height. AM Magazine describes him as "sociopathically tall." He also claims to have descended maternally from an earlier Nagasaki expatriate, Thomas Glover, the "Scottish Samurai identity theory | alphabet zen - "the bloodsucker of nagasaki" by tom bradley." Known as the Founder of Modern Japan, Glover's heavy industrial pursuits eventually attracted America's second atom bomb. It's been speculated that certain esoteric activities Tom Bradley has undertaken in Nagasaki are intended as atonement for this hereditary guilt. Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life; see also Cye Johan, Afterword, Bomb Baby, Enigmatic Ink Books, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-926617-04-6), pages 125-197

Non-Fiction:

• Put It Down in a Book, The Drill Press, 2009
• Fission Among the Fanatics, Spuyten Duyvil Books (NYC), 2007

(Both recipients of the AM Magazine Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award)

Fiction:

• Bomb Baby, Enigmatic Ink, 2010
• Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch, Dog Horn Publishing, 2010
• Calliope's Boy, Black Rainbows Press, 2010
• Vital Fluid, Crossing Chaos, 2009
• Even the Dog Won't Touch Me, Ahadada Books, 2009
• Lemur, Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2008
• Acting Alone: a novel of nuns, neo-Nazis and NORAD, Browntrout Books (San Francisco), 1995

Four performances from The Sam Edwine Pentateuch

• Breakfast with Streckfuss
• Holiday in Hiroshima
• Undecorated Dad
• Professorial Types

(podcast by London's nthposition Magazine, archived at the British Library)Live televisual performance of Lemur's second chapter