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Ray Bradbury

Born

in Waukegan, Illinois, The United States

August 22, 1920

Died

June 05, 2012

Website

https://raybradbury.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror

Influences

Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Steinbeck, Jules Verne, Stanley G. Weinbaum ...more

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Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.

Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were ada ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 4,080,583 ratings · 191,770 reviews · 2,602 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 3,020,642 ratings — published 1963 — 1057 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Martian Chronicles 4.16 avg rating — 295,522 ratings — published 1950 — 589 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Wicked This Way Comes 3.89 avg rating — 163,640 ratings — published 1962 — 197 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Illustrated Man 4.13 avg rating — 111,593 ratings — published 1951 — 275 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dandelion Wine 4.09 avg rating — 82,919 ratings — published 1957 — 265 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury, Joseph Mugnaini (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 42,493 ratings — published 1972 — 157 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The October Country by Ray Bradbury, Joe Mugnaini (Illustrator) 4.09 avg rating — 22,787 ratings — published 1955 — 164 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You 4.08 avg rating — 22,077 ratings — published 1973 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, Gary Kelley (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 15,862 ratings — published 1950 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There Will Come Soft Rains 4.24 avg rating — 13,797 ratings — published 1950 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Fahrenheit 451 (2 books)
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Green Town (4 books)
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Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (5 books)
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The Ray Bradbury Chronicles (7 books)
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October 2014 Revisit the Shelf Poll

1818, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 273 pages

25 votes, 14.7%

1860, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages

23 votes, 13.5%

1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 180 pages

20 votes, 11.8%

1953, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 227 pages

15 votes, 8.8%

1847, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 507 pages

13 votes, 7.6%

1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 355 pages

13 votes, 7.6%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

12 votes, 7.1%

1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages

12 votes, 7.1%

1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker, 488 pages

11 votes, 6.5%

1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages

10 votes, 5.9%

1876, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 231 pages

6 votes, 3.5%

1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 507 pages

6 votes, 3.5%

1851, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 663 pages

4 votes, 2.4%

170 total votes

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