Ray Bradbury

Author · 321 books

Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947. His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and then, in 1953, Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece, a scathing indictment of censorship set in a future world where the written word is forbidden. In an attempt to salvage their history and culture, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy as their books are burned by the totalitarian state. Other works include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric!, Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury has published more than thirty books, close to 600 short stories, and numerous poems, essays, and plays. His short stories have appeared in more than 1,000 school curriculum "recommended reading" anthologies. Ray Bradbury's work has been included in four Best American Short Story collections. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. In November 2000, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters was conferred upon Mr. Bradbury at the 2000 National Book Awards Ceremony in New York City. Ray Bradbury has never confined his vision to the purely literary. He has been nominated for an Academy Award (for his animated film Icarus Montgolfier Wright), and has won an Emmy Award (for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree). He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the creative consultant on the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. In 1982 he created the interior metaphors for the Spaceship Earth display at Epcot Center, Disney World, and later contributed to the conception of the Orbitron space ride at Euro-Disney, France. Married since 1947, Mr. Bradbury and his wife Maggie lived in Los Angeles with their numerous cats. Together, they raised four daughters and had eight grandchildren. Sadly, Maggie passed away in November of 2003. On the occasion of his 80th birthday in August 2000, Bradbury said, "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. The feeling I have every day is very much the same as it was when I was twelve. In any event, here I am, eighty years old, feeling no different, full of a great sense of joy, and glad for the long life that has been allowed me. I have good plans for the next ten or twenty years, and I hope you'll come along."

Series

Books

Kaleidoskop

The Dark Descent

Green Shadows, White Whale

Shadow Show

Все літо наче день один. 100 оповідань. Том перший. Книга 1

Nolan on Bradbury

The Night

The Shop Of The Mechanical Insects

Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow

Lilled Algernonile

The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories

Сборник инсценированных произведений

The Rocket

Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow

We'll Always Have Paris

The Garbage Collector

Icarus Montgolfier Wright

Selected Shorts

The Emissary

The Whole Town's Sleeping

The Little Mice

Alfred Hitchcock presenta

Dinosaur Tales

La mujer tatuada y otros cuentos de amor.

Fever Dream

The Pedestrian

Morgue Ship

Somewhere a Band is Playing

The 16th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®

American Gothic Tales

The Fox and the Forest

Scary Stories

Zero Hour

Zen in the Art of Writing

Ver de novo

Killer, Come Back To Me

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

All Summer in a Day

The Other Foot

The Halloween Tree

The Last Night of the World

The Cat's Pajamas

The Martian Chronicles / The Illustrated Man / The Golden Apples of the Sun

A Scent of Sarsaparilla

The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury

Tichá hrůza

Відьомські двері

Time in Thy Flight

Ray Bradbury Chronicles 3

Ray Bradbury

Los mejores relatos de terror llevados al cine

Thirteen Modern English and American Short Stories

Σκοτεινές ιστορίες

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles

The Homecoming

99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories

There Was an Old Woman

101 Science Fiction Short Stories

A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis and Ministers

Twice 22

Sun and Shadow

Switch on the Night

Invisible Boy

The Monster Maker

The Highway

Усмішка

I Live By the Invisible

The Shore Line at Sunset

Fever dream and other fantasies

Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed

The Jar

Short Fiction

The Long Rain

Homecoming, The

Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 65

Now and Forever

The Flying Machine

Histoires de science-fiction