Brad Vice (born November 14, 1973) is a fiction writer whose short story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press. When the Press discovered that one of the stories in the collection was based on a section of the 1934 book Stars Fell on Alabama by Carl Carmer, the Press accused Vice of plagiarism and made the controversial decision to revoke his prize and destroy all copies of the book. While some agreed that Vice had plagiarized the story, a number of commentators and editors protested this decision, saying that Vice made no attempt to hide what he did and was merely adapting a classic literary work to a new age via a postmodern apparatus. The collection has since been re-issued, in a slightly revised format.
Read more about Brad Vice: Biography, Writing, Controversy Over Alleged Plagiarism, Re-release of The Bear Bryant Funeral Train
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