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Ray Bradbury was an American author born in 1920 known for works of science fiction and fantasy. Some of his most notable works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He had a prolific writing career from a young age and received many honors including the National Medal of Arts and a special Pulitzer Prize citation. Bradbury was passionate about writing throughout his life until his death in 2012 at the age of 91.
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Ray Bradbury
- 2. Important Dates ● Birth: August 22nd, 1920 (there were a few conflicting dates, 1920 was the most common one) ● First time using writing as a career option: 1934, he was asked to write for the Burns and Allen show ● First published story: Hollerbochen's Dilemma, in January, 1938 ● Death: June 5th, 2012, at age 91
- 3. Youth All through Bradbury's childhood, from age eleven on, he wrote stories. Many of his books have settings based off his childhood dwellings. His favorite writers as a young man were Edgar Allen Poe, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. He enjoyed those two authors so much, that he styled his early writings after Poe, and wrote a sequel to the John Carter series.
- 4. Personal Life Ray Bradbury married Marguerite McClure in 1947. They stayed married until she died. They had four daughters together. Bradbury was good friends with many people, Charles Addams (creator of the Addams' family,) Gene Roddenberry (creator of Star Trek.) He kept in close contact, and was devastated when they passed away, but he kept in high spirits, and did his best to keep his writing energy up. Bradbury never liked technology. He believed that it would someday cause the downfall of man.
- 5. Notable Works ●Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is a dystopian novel, about a society where books are considered evil. ● The Martian Chronicles, published in 1950, is about humans fleeing from Earth, which was devastated by atomic warfare. The colonize Mars, but have conflicts with the native martians. ●Something Wicked This Way Comes, published in 1962, is a story about two boys who come in contact with a traveling carnival, whose leader is obsessed with getting people to sign enslaving contracts.
- 6. Notable awards and honors ● The Benjamin Franklin Award ● The Emmy Award, for an animated cartoon of The Halloween Tree ● The National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush ● The Pulitzer Prize, with a special citation, prolific and unmatched career and influence
- 7. Sources ● http://bsspurlock.iweb.bsu.edu/213/life.htm ● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury ● http://www.biography.com/people/ray-bradbury- 9223240