Ernest Brawley is a native Californian. He attended the University of California at Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University, where he was granted several writing scholarships and a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing. Since then, he has spent his life writing, teaching, and traveling the world. He has taught at the University of Hawaii, Hunter College, New York University, and the Sorbonne. He has lived and worked in Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome, London, Bombay, Bangkok, Tokyo and New York. He is a recipient of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature, and served for several years on the Fiction Award Committee of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington.
Aside from numerous short stories, magazine articles, and book reviews, he has published five novels. His first, THE RAP, was originally published by Atheneum. It was a Dual Main Selection with Book of the Month Club, went into two editions as a mass market paperback, was number two on the Dell Best Seller List, and was published in several foreign languages. It was optioned by Lorimar Productions and made into a feature film entitled FASTWALKING, in which Brawley was credited as writer. It was re-published by Little Machines Press/Roots Digital Media and is now available at http://amzn.to/1E2N6Im. Brawley’s second novel, SELENA, was also published by Atheneum. It was a main selection at Literary Guild and a mass market paperback with Signet here and Granada in England. It was purchased by Twentieth Century Fox, and was also republished by Roots Digital Media. His third novel, THE ALAMO TREE, was published by Simon & Schuster and was a featured selection at Literary Guild. His fourth novel, LOVE HAS NO COUNTRY, published in 2021, is now available at amazon.com, as is his recently published fifth novel STREETLIGHT. His new novel BLOOD MOON, is soon to be published as well. In addition, Brawley has written two film scripts, THE DRESSING OF THE DEAD for writer/producer George Gonneau, and THE NORTHMEN for producer Jeff Goldman. At present, Brawley is working on a novel entitled Desert Places, about a beautiful young girl, raised in a prison guard's Quonset hut in a state prison in the middle of the Mojave Desert, who dreams of Hollywood stardom.... and almost makes it.
