Ray Bradbury spent three days a week for ten years in the library (“Ray Bradbury: Biography and Writing Style”). Ray Bradbury was born in 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. Bradbury started writing when he was seven years old. His life was not easy growing up. When he graduated from high school, he could not afford to attend college due to the Great Depression. Even through these challenging circumstances, Ray Bradbury wrote his first collection of short stories called The Dark Carnival. Bradbury's extreme challenges growing up in the Depression, dealing with the fears that the universe brings, and living through the greatest world war changed the point of view of his writings, especially his short story “The Pedestrian.” Ray Bradbury had a modest …show more content…
He published his first short stories in 1943, and later published his first novel in 1950. Bradbury continued to write and his first successful writing came in the following years. Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953 instantly became a hit, winning the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award and the Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel (“Timeline of Bradbury's Life”). Even through times of depression around the world, Ray Bradbury figured out how to be successful. Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 was based on his fears. Bradbury took inspiration from the Nazi book burnings in 1933, the Atomic Bombs, and McCarthyism (Bradbury). Bradbury believed that people should write novels based on their past experiences and through challenging times in their lives, so that truth is behind the storytelling. Bradbury of course did that with this novel, and it ended up being his most accomplished novel to this day. Upon release, Fahrenheit 451 boosted the success of the outliers in the world. Later becoming Ray Bradbury's best-selling novel, selling over ten million copies. Fahrenheit 451 showed that expressing one's fears to other people could have a good