Ray Douglas Bradbury was born August
22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. Since age 11, Ray Bradbury has had a
passion for writing. He greatly enjoyed writing short stories throughout
high school. In 1938 he graduated from Los Angeles High School and ended
his formal education. In the same year his first story was published,
Hollerbochen's Dilemma, and by 1943 he was writing full-time. Although
his formal education ended in high school, he continued to learn from
many other sources. For instance, Ray Bradbury sold newspapers on street
corners. He also spent his nights at the public library or in front of
his typewriter. Bradbury began to gain fame from his Articles called "The
Martian Chronicles" published in 1950. They were about Earth's attempts
to conquer and colonize Mars. People quickly took to Bradbury's unique
writing. Some famous novels by Bradbury are Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit
451, and Something
Wicked This Way Comes.
Today Bradbury is a very famous author and has more than five hundred
published works. Most of them are Science Fiction. He has many awards,
among them the World Fantasy Award for LifeTime Achievement, the Benjamin
Franklin Award, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers.
Many critics think his stories are wonderful masterworks that a reader
can carry with them throughout life. Ray Bradbury challenges the way the
reader's imagination works through his short stories, novels, plays, screenplays,
television scripts, and verses.
