Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1920. As a boy he loved magic, Buck Rogers comic books and the stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and he began writing his own stories at twelve. His family moved several times before settling in Los Angeles in 1934. He did not go to college; after graduating from high school he sold newspapers on street corners and educated himself in public libraries. His first paid stories appeared in pulp magazines in the early 1940s. The Martian Chronicles (1950), linked stories about people settling Mars, made his name. Fahrenheit 451 (1953) describes a future in which firemen burn books and is often read as a warning about censorship and the loss of reading. He also wrote the autobiographical novel Dandelion Wine (1957), set in a small Illinois town in summer, and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962). He wrote many more short stories, as well as poetry and screenplays, including the film Moby Dick. He married Marguerite McClure in 1947, and they had four daughters. He died in Los Angeles in 2012.

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Faith: Raised Baptist; as an adult he called himself a 'delicatessen religionist' drawing on Eastern and Western faiths. Source: Wikipedia