Bradbury, Ray (1920-2012), was an American author best known for his fantasy stories and science fiction. Bradbury’s best writing effectively combines a lively imagination with a poetic style. In 2007, Bradbury received a Pulitzer Prize special citation “for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.”
Collections of Bradbury’s stories include The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), The October Country (1955), I Sing the Body Electric! (1969), Quicker Than the Eye (1996), One More for the Road (2002), and Now and Forever (2007). His novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) describes a society that bans the ownership of books. His other novels include Dandelion Wine (1957), a poetic story of a boy’s summer in an Illinois town in 1928; a sequel called Farewell Summer (2006); and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), a suspenseful fantasy about a black magic carnival that comes to a small Midwestern town. He also wrote poetry, screenplays, and stage plays.
Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on Aug. 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He died on June 5, 2012. Remembrance, a collection of Bradbury’s letters, was published in 2023, after his death.
See also Fahrenheit 451; Science fiction.
