Ray Bradbury





Ray Bradbury

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born
in Waukegan, Illinois, The United States
August 22, 1920

died
June 05, 2012

gender
male

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About this author

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.

His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars...more


Average rating: 3.95 · 752,634 ratings · 25,268 reviews · 279 distinct works · Similar authors
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 5,115 ratings — published 1955 — 46 editions
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Zen in the Art of Writing
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 4,120 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions
The Golden Apples of the Sun
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 3,573 ratings — published 1953 — 53 editions
More books by Ray Bradbury…
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

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