Ray Bradbury
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born
August 22, 1920
gender
male
place of birth
Waukegan, Illinois, The United States
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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction
about this author
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most popular American writers of fiction during the twentieth century.
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Ray Bradbury. (2007, October 18). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:34, October 19, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray_Bradbury&oldid=165353349
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury avg rating 3.89 — 78,833 ratings — published 1953 145 editions |
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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury avg rating 4.01 — 10,061 ratings — published 1950 78 editions |
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury avg rating 3.93 — 7,376 ratings — published 1962 47 editions |
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury avg rating 3.97 — 4,850 ratings — published 1946 44 editions |
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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury avg rating 4.09 — 4,518 ratings — published 1951 46 editions |
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I Sing the Body Electric! And Other Stories by Ray Bradbury avg rating 3.98 — 1,603 ratings — published 1969 24 editions |
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The October Country by Ray Bradbury avg rating 4.06 — 1,118 ratings — published 1955 29 editions |
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The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury avg rating 3.85 — 1,091 ratings — published 1972 21 editions |
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The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury avg rating 3.95 — 970 ratings — published 1953 28 editions |
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Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury avg rating 3.98 — 751 ratings — published 1989 9 editions |
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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury
— Ray Bradbury
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)
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"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
— Ray Bradbury
— Ray Bradbury
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