![]() ![]() As a teenager, he participated in his school's drama club and occasionally befriended Hollywood celebrities. He later said that he made the decision in hopes of emulating his heroes, and to "live forever" through his fiction.īradbury's family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1934. Frank Baum, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs.īradbury decided to become a writer at about age 12 or 13. As a child, he was a huge fan of magicians, and a voracious reader of adventure and fantasy fiction - especially L. Bradbury enjoyed a relatively idyllic childhood in Waukegan, which he later incorporated into several semi-autobiographical novels and short stories. ![]() Early LifeĪuthor Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a lineman for power and telephone utilities, and Ester Moberg Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant. Bradbury won the Pulitzer in 2007, and is one of the most celebrated authors of the 21st century. He is also remembered for several other popular works, including The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes. His best known novel is Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian study of future American society in which critical thought is outlawed. Ray Bradbury was an American fantasy and horror author who rejected being categorized as a science fiction author, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. ![]()
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