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Bruno P. Maddox (born 1969) is a British literary novelist and journalist who is best known for his critically lauded novel ''My Little Blue Dress'' (2001) and for his satirical magazine essays. After graduating from Harvard University in 1992, Maddox began his career reviewing books for ''The New York Times Book Review'' and ''The Washington Post Book World''. In early 1996, he was appointed to an editorship at ''Spy'' magazine and within a few months he was promoted to editor-in-chief, a position he held until the magazine shut down in 1998. Maddox wrote ''My Little Blue Dress'' between 1999 and 2001. Since its publication, he has focused on writing satirical essays for magazines such as ''GEAR'' and ''Travel + Leisure''; he also contributes a monthly humor column to ''Discover'' magazine called "Blinded by Science", drawing on his early exposure to science and technology. Maddox is likewise a contributing editor to the American edition of ''The Week'' magazine.〔 ==Early years== Maddox was born in London in 1969 to former ''Nature'' editor, the late Sir John Maddox, a writer on science and nature, and Brenda Maddox, a biographer of Rosalind Franklin, W.B. Yeats, Nora Barnacle and several others.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Discover )〕 He has one sister, Bronwen Maddox, who became a journalist, was Chief Foreign Commentator of ''The Times'' and is now Editor and Chief Executive of Prospect Magazine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Penguin Group (USA) )〕 Maddox enjoyed a privileged life during his childhood and youth, because of his father's position as editor of ''Nature'', encountering some of the leading scientific thinkers of the day and enjoying dinners with figures such as James Watson and Sir Fred Hoyle.〔 Despite his family's background in science, Maddox was interested in the humanities while he attended Westminster School, an independent boys' school in London. Maddox went on to study English literature at Harvard University and graduated in 1992.〔 He published his only article in the student newspaper ''The Harvard Crimson'' during his senior year. He won the undergraduate Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for his senior thesis "on the use of adjectives in restaurant menus" titled ''Maltese: A Gastrosophic Theory of Reading''.〔 After graduation Maddox moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Moscow—where he worked for three weeks as the English-language editor of a Russian magazine—and then to New York City, where he spent two years working odd jobs, including hand-delivering celebrity invitations to local parties.〔 Maddox's freelance writing career began in 1994, when he became a book reviewer for ''The New York Times Book Review'' and ''The Washington Post'', where he developed a reputation for writing scathing reviews that would later help him land a job as an editor at ''Spy'' magazine.〔 Maddox described his book reviewing style as "pretty vicious", and quipped that he "was a frustrated, twenty-something guy, sitting in his bedroom venting existential rage on these nasty academics".〔 His last book review for ''The Washington Post'' was in late 1996; however, he continued reviewing for ''The New York Times'' up until 1998, contributing only a couple of reviews thereafter. At the beginning of the dot-com boom, Maddox found full-time work at an information technology company, where he worked for a year and a half.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruno Maddox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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