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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]
Jun 1, 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.
- Ray Bradbury is an American author known for his highly imaginative short stories and novels that blend a poetic style, nostalgia for childhood, so...
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is regarded as Ray Bradbury’s greatest work. The novel is about a future society where books are forbidden, and it has been a...
- Ray Bradbury's final novel was Farewell Summer (2006), a sequel to one of his most well-known works, the autobiographical novel Dandelion Wine (1957).
- In 2007 the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded Ray Bradbury a Special Citation for his distinguished career.
Apr 2, 2014 · American fantasy and horror author Ray Bradbury is best known for his novels 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The Illustrated Man' and 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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.
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- Fahrenheit 451 (1953) In a dystopian world where books are verboten and most people spend their lives in front of television screens, fireman Guy Montag doesn’t put out fires — he starts them.
- The October Country (1955) 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.
- The Martian Chronicles (1950) It’s January 1999 and heat from the rocket flames blazes through an Ohio winter as pioneers leave Earth for Mars.
- The Illustrated Man (1951) This dark and marvelous novel is a collection of short stories tied together by the presence of the Illustrated Man — a former carnival worker whose crawling tattoos spin stories of terror and wonder.
‘Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works—short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse—exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.
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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...
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