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Alan Bradley born is a Canadian mystery writer known for his Flavia de Luce series, which began with the acclaimed The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Bradley was born in in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. He was brought up with two older sisters in the small town of Cobourg, Ontario. When Bradley was a toddler, his father left the family and his mother raised the children alone.

After completing his education, Bradley worked in Cobourg as a radio and television engineer, designing and building electronic systems.

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He then worked briefly for Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto now Toronto Metropolitan University , before moving to Saskatoon to take a job at the University of Saskatchewan in There he helped develop a broadcasting studio, where he worked as Director of Television Engineering for 25 years. He took an early retirement from the university in to become a full-time writer.

Bradley wrote several short stories that were read on CBC Radio and published in literary magazines. Following his early retirement from the University of Saskatchewan in , Bradley and his wife Shirley moved to Kelowna, British Columbia , for her work, while Bradley focused on writing. He wrote multiple screenplays over the course of nine years. Then, during the Okanagan Mountain Park Fire , many homes neighboring Bradley's were destroyed, although his was spared from the fire.