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Ray Douglas Bradbury ( US: / ˈbrædbɛri / 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. [ 3]
Aug 18, 2024 · Ray Bradbury, American author 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. Perhaps his best-known book is Fahrenheit 451. Learn more about Bradbury’s life and career.
Bradbury honed his sci-fi sensibility writing for popular television shows, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. He also ventured into screenplay writing (he wrote the screenplay for John Huston’s 1953 film Moby Dick ).
Jul 22, 2020 · Our guide to the essential Ray Bradbury books, starting with the book-burning dystopia that made him a household name — 'Fahrenheit 451'.
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’.
1 day ago · This was the birth anniversary week of the American writer Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451 which, 71 years after it was published, remains one of the most iconic critiques of censorship and mass conformity ever written. Censorship too, has survived and thrived — and 104 years after Bradbury was born — on August […]
His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th century—and the 21st.’. During a career that spanned seventy-plus years, Ray Bradbury wrote more than 400 short stories and nearly fifty books across a variety of genres.
Jun 5, 2012 · 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).
Learn about the life and times of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Discover Bradbury’s novels, short stories, children’s literature, poetry, essays, and plays. Explore Bradbury the visionary, who predicted future inventions and technologies that would one day alter our everyday lives.
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...
