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Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: / ˈ b r æ d b ɛr i / BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.. Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other ...
6 days ago · Ray Bradbury (born August 22, 1920, Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.—died June 5, 2012, Los Angeles, California) was an American author best known for his highly imaginative short stories and novels that blend a poetic style, nostalgia for childhood, social criticism, and an awareness of the hazards of runaway technology.. Early life. As a child, Bradbury loved horror films such as The Phantom of the Opera (1925); the books of L. Frank Baum and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first science fiction ...
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) is widely recognised as one of the greatest – and most lyrical – science-fiction writers of the twentieth century, although he preferred to describe himself as a ‘fantasy writer’ or simply as a ‘writer’. Although he is known for novels such as the dystopian classic Fahrenheit…
Ray Bradbury’s contribution to the literary landscape and our collective imagination made him one of the best-known writers of our time. As a master storyteller, champion of creative freedom, space-age visionary, and guardian of the human heart, he has been embraced by millions across many generations and all walks of life.
Jul 22, 2020 · Despite his renown for his book-burning dystopian novel, Bradbury was, above all else, a short-story writer. His first book was a collection of grotesque and moody stories published in 1947 under the title Dark Carnival.Eight years later, he cut, revised, and added to this collection to make up his definitive tome of the macabre and fantastic — The October Country. Among its beautiful nuggets of autumnal confectionery are such favorites as The Small Assassin, Skeleton, and The Wind, in ...
His enduring novels, novelized story cycles, and story collections include The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), Fahrenheit 451 (1953), The October Country (1955), Dandelion Wine (1957), A Medicine for Melancholy (1959), and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962).. Bradbury’s many subsequent books include the children’s fantasy The Halloween Tree (1972); the detective novel trilogy Death Is a Lonely Business (1985), A Graveyard ...
Jun 5, 2012 · Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Feb 24, 2020 · Full Name: Ray Douglas Bradbury Known For: American science fiction author Born: August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois Parents: Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Bradbury (née Moberg) Died: June 5, 2012 in Los Angeles, California Education: Los Angeles High School Selected Works: The Martian Chronicles (1950), Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Dandelion Wine (1957), Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), I Sing the Body Electric (1969) Selected Awards and Honors: Prometheus Award (1984), Emmy ...
Dec 3, 2020 · In his blog Meditations in an Emergency Rephun shows us how the love of reading and belief in the power of language he discovered through Bradbury continues to shape his outlook. He sets the opening line of Fahrenheit 451, “It was a pleasure to burn,” against the warning Bulgakov’s Devil gives an author who tries to burn his own manuscript, “Manuscripts don’t burn.”That desire for destruction, for burning, Menachem Rephun suggests, is thwarted by the inability to destroy stories ...
Jun 6, 2012 · Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction whose imaginative and lyrical evocations of the future reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America, died on Tuesday in Los ...
