Bobby Bradford graduated from high school in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1964 at the age of 16, and hitchhiked out of town the next morning, telling his mother to inform the authorities that he had "run off to California with a band of beatniks."

In a futile attempt at rehabilitation, he has recently earned a BA (2003) and an MA (2006) in Humanities from Dominican University of California.

   He has earned money as a shoe salesman, sandal maker, tiki carver, door-to-door soap salesman, printer's devil, actor, fruit picker, masseur, warehouseman, buttwiper (home care attendant), bookstore clerk, bandleader, caddy, usher, projectionist, composer, cameraman, recording engineer, poet, teaching assistant, feature writer, web designer, house painter, narrator, photographer, tutor, copy editor, church sexton, graphic artist, dishwasher and street singer, and has had numerous intercontinental adventures too sordid to recount here.

   Since 1968 he has sung and played rock'n'roll, blues, country, folk, gospel and opera in Northern California, New England and Europe.

   Since 1974 he has spent part of almost every year at College of Marin in Kentfield, California, first as a full-time student and part-time employee, now as a full-time employee and part-time student, with Associate of Arts degrees in Communications and Humanities.

   Since 1976 he has sold more than 100 feature articles to local and national publications, and currently edits three newsletters (Ecumenical Association for Housing's "Keys to Housing," circulation 13,000; California School Employees Association Chapter 196's award-winning "Class Act"; and College of Marin's Disabled Students Programs' "DisPatches"). He has written two novels (Middleman and The Amsterdam Cards) and is working on a third (The Sleeping Princess and the Penis from Bolinas).

   Since 1978 he has produced and directed dozens of videos, mostly promotional pieces for local non-profits such as Ecumenical Association for Housing and the Marin Conservation League.

   Since 1995 he has been pursuing Multimedia Studies at College of Marin, with a concentration on web design.

   He has a daughter, three grandchildren, a girlfriend, a hideout on the Russian River, an Oldsmobile and a '68 Chevy van, but his dog is dead.

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