Arthur Houston Bradford (born November 19, 1969) is an American writer and filmmaker. He has published two books of short stories, Dogwalker (2001) and Turtleface and Beyond (2015), and a children's book, Benny's Brigade (2012). He has directed the How's Your News? documentary series and the Emmy-nominated documentary film 6 Days to Air, as well as the documentaries ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! and To Be Destroyed.
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Bradford was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the son of energy regulator Peter A. Bradford and painter Katherine Bradford. He and his twin sister, Laura Bradford, grew up in Maine and New York City. They both attended Phillips Academy and Yale University, graduating in 1993. After graduating, Bradford moved to Austin, Texas, where he worked at The Texas School for the Blind and began writing short stories and making short films. During this time he was awarded a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and later earned an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.
After the publication of his first book, Dogwalker, in 2001, Bradford lived briefly in a remote cabin in The Northeast Kingdom where he wrote and published several short stories about the experience. He later moved to Brooklyn, New York, in order to pursue filmmaking. In 2005 he became the co-director of Camp Jabberwocky, a residential camp for people with disabilities. It was there that he originated the How's Your News? series with help from South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
Bradford is the great-great-grandson of Felix M. Warburg and Simon F. Rothschild; and the great-great-great-grandson of Abraham Abraham and Jacob Schiff. A direct descendant of the first governor of Massachusetts, William Bradford, he was named after his great grandfather, the minister Arthur Howe Bradford.