Ray Bradbury One of the best writers of the 20th century and greatest of all time is Ray Bradbury. He rejected being called science fiction and instead enjoyed to be called Fantasy. He is best known for his classic Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th and is well deserved of that honor.
Ray Bradbury was born August 22, 1920 to Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Bradbury in Waukegan, Illinois. As a child he was a huge fan of magicians and loved reading adventures and fantasy fictions. Bradbury decided to become a writer at the age of 12. He moved to Las Angeles, California in 1934 and there he joined the drama club and became friends with several celebrities. After high school he could not afford to go to college and instead spent most of his time in the libraries.
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He was not able to enter the war because of his vision problem. He became a full time writer in 1943. In 1947 he married Marguerite McClure whom he met while she was working as a clerk at a bookstore. The couple has 4 daughters. In 1950, Bradbury published his first major work, The Martian Chronicles, which detailed a conflict between humans colonizing the red planet and the native Martians they encountered there. Bradbury’s best known work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953 became an instant classic. According to Bradbury in this book if you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”(104). Shows that he feels that being strong willed and have to take punishments is a big part of learning. This is significant because it took him quite some time to break through and write his first successful novel. Bradbury was named the “Ideas Consultant” for the United States Pavilion at the 1964 World’s