Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, and arrived in Los Angeles with his family in 1934. Unable to pay for university, he educated himself in libraries, which he haunted for ten years, and sold newspapers on a street corner while writing. He wrote for more than seventy years, published some six hundred short stories and worked for cinema and television. He never learned to drive. He received the National Book Foundation medal in 2000 and a special citation from the Pulitzer in 2007. He died in Los Angeles in 2012.

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• NovelFahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury · 1953Literature