Author/Background
The Life & Inspiration of Ray Bradbury
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Ray Douglas Bradbury, a great American author, was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third child of Leonard Bradbury and Esther Bradbury.
As Ray Bradbury grew older, he gradually increased his passion for writing. After high school, he did not go to college, but passed his time by being a newspaper vendor and writing in the public library.
Bradbury's first successful novel was The Martian Chronicles which he published in 1950 which describes the frist colonists on Mars following a nuclear war on Earth. Following this, he created what many consider his masterpiece - Fahrenheit 451.
Fahrenheit 451 was written to emphasize the growing dependence on technology by people. He was greatly afraid that one day technological advances would take the place of human interactions. Feeling a need to express this, he wrote down his thoughts in The Fireman, which later became Fahrenheit 451.
Other books that he wrote include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric!, Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind.
Overall, Bradbury published over 30 books, around 600 short stories, several poems, essays, and plays.
He won many awards for his numerous stories such as the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award (1954), and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. His work was also included in the Best American Short Stories collections for 1946, 1948 and 1952.
As Ray Bradbury grew older, he gradually increased his passion for writing. After high school, he did not go to college, but passed his time by being a newspaper vendor and writing in the public library.
Bradbury's first successful novel was The Martian Chronicles which he published in 1950 which describes the frist colonists on Mars following a nuclear war on Earth. Following this, he created what many consider his masterpiece - Fahrenheit 451.
Fahrenheit 451 was written to emphasize the growing dependence on technology by people. He was greatly afraid that one day technological advances would take the place of human interactions. Feeling a need to express this, he wrote down his thoughts in The Fireman, which later became Fahrenheit 451.
Other books that he wrote include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric!, Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind.
Overall, Bradbury published over 30 books, around 600 short stories, several poems, essays, and plays.
He won many awards for his numerous stories such as the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award (1954), and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. His work was also included in the Best American Short Stories collections for 1946, 1948 and 1952.