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Ray Bradbury


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

Died
June 05, 2012

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror

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


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 · 3,967,391 ratings · 181,662 reviews · 2,572 distinct works • Similar authors
Fahrenheit 451
3.97 avg rating — 2,935,921 ratings — published 1963 — 124 editions
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The Martian Chronicles
4.16 avg rating — 290,931 ratings — published 1950 — 13 editions
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Something Wicked This Way C...
3.89 avg rating — 157,417 ratings — published 1962 — 43 editions
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The Illustrated Man
4.13 avg rating — 109,799 ratings — published 1951 — 273 editions
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Dandelion Wine
4.09 avg rating — 80,378 ratings — published 1957 — 10 editions
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The Halloween Tree
3.76 avg rating — 39,888 ratings — published 1972 — 145 editions
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The October Country
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4.09 avg rating — 22,040 ratings — published 1955 — 168 editions
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Zen in the Art of Writing: ...
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The Veldt
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4.14 avg rating — 15,282 ratings — published 1950 — 22 editions
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I Sing the Body Electric! &...
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
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“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: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
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March 2016 New School Group Read

1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages
 
  25 votes, 12.6%

1987, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, 296 pages
 
  24 votes, 12.1%

1965, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 343 pages
 
  20 votes, 10.1%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages
 
  19 votes, 9.5%

1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages
 
  14 votes, 7.0%

 
  14 votes, 7.0%

1963, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 179 pages
 
  12 votes, 6.0%

1928, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 228 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.5%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.5%

 
  9 votes, 4.5%

 
  9 votes, 4.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.0%

1919, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 240 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.0%

1958, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 567 pages
 
  5 votes, 2.5%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.0%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.0%

 
  2 votes, 1.0%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.0%

199 total votes
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