Meet the Author The author of Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury. He also wrote many screenplays, poems, essays, operas, books, and teleplays. He is a father to four daughters: Susan Nixon, Alexandra Bradbury, Ramona Ostergren, and Bettina Karapetican. As well as a grandfather to eight grandchildren. Bradbury was born August 8, 1920, he graduated high school in 1938, and died on June 5, 2012 due to an illness he was suffering from for a long time. When he was 12, he encountered a carnival magician by the name of Mr. Electrico. At the end of the carnival, the magician touched Bradbury with a sword and told him to “Live Forever.” From that point on, Ray Bradbury wrote almost every single day, because of that event which inspired him. Ray Bradbury has received the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal, 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. In his book, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury has many references, or parts of the book based off of what happened in the real world.
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It could also be defined as the suppression of ideas or information that certain people find wrong or dangerous. This has been around for a very long time, matter of fact, the earliest recorded attempt of censorship was in 399 b.c, with Socrates. He was executed later on that year. Today in American, censorship or book banning cannot happen because of the first amendment. That guarantees that books can never be banned, but tried or challenged. When a book is challenged, it gets removed from a certain library, school, etc. There are many reasons why a book could be challenged. For example, political, social, and religion, are main reasons why a book is challenged or removed from certain areas. A book supporting communism, or promoting it, most likely would be challenged and removed from a school or library. One time, books were not challenged at all, they were just