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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Ray Bradbury |
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Los Angeles, California , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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August 22, 1920
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| Died | June 05, 2012
(91 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | Ray Douglas Bradbury, the author of more than 500 published literary works, was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920. Bradbury moved with his family to Tucson, Arizona, when he was 6, but returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1932, Bradbury¹s father lost his job and the family again moved to Tucson, only to return to Waukegan the next year. In 1934, when Bradbury was 14, the family moved permanently to Los Angeles, California. Mr. Bradbury still resides in Los Angeles, but regards Waukegan as his hometown and has used it as the setting of two of his novels under the pseudonym of Green Town.
In his youth, Bradbury developed a love of magic and had aspirations of becoming a magician. Encouraged in his creativity by his family, Bradbury turned to writing at a young age, a profession at which many would argue he has worked quite a bit of magic. In 1937, at the age of 17, Bradbury became a member of the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, through which he published his first work, a short lived science fiction fan magazine. Bradbury¹s first short story was published in Weird Tales when the author was 20. This was the first of many professional publications of Bradbury¹s work, which includes Dark Carnival (1947), Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), Dandelion Wine (1957), Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), Death is a Lonely Business (1985), The April Witch (1987), Death Has Lost It¹s Charm (1987), The Toynbee Collector (1988), Graveyard for Lunatics (1990), Folon¹s Folon¹s (1990), Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity (1991), and A Chrestomathy of Ray Bradbury: A Dramatic Selection (1991) in addition to Fahrenheight 451 (1953).
In addition to his numerous books and short stories, Bradbury wrote for years for both Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. He has written two musicals, produced dramatic presentations of a number of his novels, and wrote the screenplay for 1953¹s Moby Dick. His cable television show, The Ray Bradbury Theater, has won numerous cable awards, and five of his novels Fahrenheight 451, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Outer Space, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes have been made into major motion pictures. Bradbury was a consultant for the 1963 World¹s Fair and helped to design the Spaceship Earth ride at Disney World¹s EPCOT Center. Additionally, Mr. Bradbury has worked as a consultant on city engineering and rapid transit.
Though Ray Bradbury is most widely regarded as a science fiction writer, he has not limited himself to that genre, having produced both works of drama and psychological realism in addition to his science fiction works. Furthermore, it would be unfair to classify much of Bradbury¹s more philosophical science fiction, Fahrenheight 451 included within the genre of science fiction. Fahrenheight 451 is just as much a social criticism as a work of science fiction, if not more so. Bradbury¹s work has contributed to American literature on many levels.
Bradbury has been the recipient of countless literary awards, including the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Aviation-Space Writer's Association Award for best space article in an American Magazine, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award.
Mr. Bradbury, the father or four and grandfather of many, currently resides in Los Angeles, where he continues to write and speak and enjoys painting and collects Mexican artwork.
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