Ray Bradbury (his given title is non Raymond) was innate around Waukegan, Illinois to a Swedish mother and the father world health organization was the telephone lineman. His granddad & peachy-grandfather were newspaper publishers, & non amazingly, Bradbury was the reader & writer throughout his youth, reading in the Carnegie Library at Waukegan. His deuce early books Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes depict the town of Waukegan when "Green Town" & come semi-autobiographical. A Bradbury personal sleep in Tucson, Arizona, within 1926-1927 & 1932-1933, both period giving to Waukegan, and one of these days settled in Los Angeles in 1934 when he was age 13.

He graduated from either high school in Los Angeles (where class fellow Ray Harryhausen became a womb-to-tomb friend) however chose does'nt to attend college. To produce the residing, he sold newspapers. He educated himself at a library and, having been influenced by science fiction heroes like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Bradbury began to publish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. His foremost agency low was to the pulp magazine Super Science Stories in 1941, and he became the good-whale writer per prevent of 1942. His number 1 book, a collection Dark Carnival, was published in 1947. He married Marguerite McClure inside 1947, & it got little joe girl.

Works
For even even Bradbury, there exists the bit of blurring of categories, & the distinctions beneath come somewhat subjective, for he ofttimes has written multiple short stories all about a placed of characters or a subject, making nipper edits or adding supplemental poop, & calling the effects a "novel".

Although he is typically described as a science fiction writer, Bradbury doesn't pack himself into any particular categorization:

"First of all, I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal. So Martian Chronicles is not science fiction, it's fantasy. It couldn't happen, you see? That's the reason it's going to be around a long time — because it's a Greek myth, and myths have staying power." [http://weeklywire.com/ww/09-27-99/alibi_feat1.html]

Within between his fiction operate Bradbury has written several short essays on good cases on a arts & culture, attracting a attention of serious critics therein field. Bradbury was a adviser for the U.s. Marquee at the 1964 New York World's Fair and the exhibit housed in EPCOT's Spaceship Earth geosphere at Walt Disney World.

Novels

(1950) The Martian Chronicles (1953) Fahrenheit 451 (1957) Dandelion Wine (1962) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1972) The Halloween Tree (1985) Death Is a Lonely Business (1990) A Graveyard for Lunatics (1992) Green Shadows, White Whale (2001) From the Dust Returned (2003) ''Let's All Kill Constance (2003) It Came from Outer Space

Short story collections

(1947) Dark Carnival (1951) The Illustrated Man (1953) The Golden Apples of the Sun (contains "A Sound of Thunder") (1955) The October Country (1959) A Medicine for Melancholy (contains "All Summer in a Day") (1962) R is for Rocket (1964) The Machineries of Joy (1965) The Vintage Bradbury (1966) S is for Space (1969) I Sing The Body Electric! (1976) Long After Midnight (1980) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1984) A Memory of Murder (1988) The Toynbee Convector (1996) Quicker Than The Eye (1998) Driving Blind (2002) One More for the Road (2003) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2004) The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2005) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

Additionally to these collections, many of the stories stand been recollected into several "Best Of" style volumes.

Screenplays and Teleplays

(1953) It Came From Outer Space (original story) (1956) Moby Dick Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1956) The Bullet Trick / A Marked Bullet Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) Shopping For Death (1958) Design For Loving (1959) Special Delivery (1962) The Faith Of Aaron Menefee Steve Canyon (1959) The Gift Trouble Shooters (1959) The Burrow to Yesterday (1961) King of Kings (narration, uncredited) The Twilight Zone (1962) I Sing a Person Electric Alcoa Premiere (1962) The Jail (1962) Icarus Montgolfier Wright The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964) The Life Act of Juan Diaz (1969) The Picasso Summer The Curiosity Shop (1971) The Groon (1979) Gnomes (1982) The Electric Grandmother (1983) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Quest (1985-1992) The Ray Bradbury Theater The Twilight Zone (1986) The Elevator (1992) Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1993) The Halloween Tree (1998) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit''

This listings doesn't include adaptations by others of Bradbury's promulgated stories.

Radio

World Security Workshop (1947) The Meadow Suspense (1947) Riabouchinska (original story) (1948) Summer Night (original story) (1948) The Screaming Woman (original story) (1968) ''Leviathan '99''

This listing doesn't include adaptations by others of Bradbury's promulgated stories.

Poetry

(1975) When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed (1977) Where Robot Mice and Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns (1981) The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (2002) They Have Not Seen the Stars: The Collected Poetry of Ray Bradbury

Plays

(1948) The Meadow (1963) The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics (1966) The Day It Rained Forever (1966) The Pedestrian (1972) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1975) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1986) Fahrenheit 451 (1986) The Martian Chronicles (1988) Dandelion Wine (1988) Falling Upward (1988) Bradbury on Stage: A Chrestomathy of His Plays

Children

(1955) Switch on the Night (1997) With Cat for Comforter (1997) Dogs Think That Every Day Is Christmas

Fable

(1998) Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines

Non-fiction

(1990) Zen in the Art of Writing (1991) Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures (2004) Conversations With Ray Bradbury (2005) Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars

Adaptations of his work

Numbers of Bradbury stories & novels have been adapted to films, radio, television, theater & comedian books. Around 1951-1954, twenty-xxvii of Ray Bradbury's stories were adapted by Al Feldstein for EC Comics, sixteen of which were collected in the books A Autumn Population (1965) & Tomorrow Midnight (1966).

In the early Fifties, adaptations of Bradbury stories were televised in the kind of shows -- Tales of Tomorrow, Lights Out, Out There, Suspense, CBS Television Workshop, ''Jane Wyman's Fireside Theatre, Star Tonight, Windows & Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Of these spectacular, easily-remembered production from either this period of time, praised by Kind, was a half-30 minutes film, "The Merry-Go Round," adapted from either "The Black Ferris" & shown in two Starlight Summer Theater'' inside 1954 & NBC's Sneak Preview within 1956. The Martian Chronicles became a 1980 TV miniseries starring Rock Hudson. For The Ray Bradbury Theater, first seen in TV from either 1985 to 1992, Bradbury adapted 65 of his stories. Director Jack Arnold foremost brought Bradbury to cinema around 1953 by using It Come from either Outer Space, the Harry Essex screenplay developed from either Bradbury's screen coarse of action ("The Meteor"). 3 weeks late come a release of Eugène Lourié's The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), based on Bradbury's "The Fog Horn," about the sethe monster mistaking a fog horn for the mating cry of the female. Bradbury's close friend Ray Harryhausen produced the prevent-motion animation of the animal. Above a next L years, further than 35 features, shorts & TV picture were filmed from either Bradbury stories or even screenplays.

Recently, Peter Hyams' The Healthy of Thunder (2005) brought an most unanimous veto reaction from either film critics. Reviewing for The New York Times, A.O. Scott found that "it illustrates the dangers of turning a lean, elegant short story into a loud, noisy, incoherent B movie." The newly film version of Fahrenheit 451 is existence planned by director Frank Darabont; an earliest version was directed by François Truffaut in 1966.

Within 2002, Bradbury's have Pandemonium Theatre Company production of Fahrenheit 451 at Burbank's Falcon Theatre combined survive acting by owning projected digital animation per [http://sromagazine.biz/mag/one_hot_stage/index.html Pixel Pups]. Bradbury & director Charles Rome Smith co-founded Topsy-turvydom inside 1964, staging a Up to date York production of The Globe of Ray Bradbury (1964), adaptations of "The Pedestrian," "The Veldt" & "To the Chicago Abyss."

Honors and awards

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Ray Bradbury has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6644 Hollywood Blvd. There exists an asteroid named in his honor known as (9766) Bradbury, along by owning the crater on the moon known as "Dandelion Crater" (known as when his novel, Blowball Wine).

In November 17, 2004, Bradbury was the recipient of the National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush and Laura Bush.

Bradbury has likewise received the World Fantasy Award life achievement, Stoker Award life achievement, SFWA Grand Master, SF Hall of Fame Living Inductee, & Number one Fandom Award.

A "About the Author" sections within many of his published works claim that he has been nominated for an Academy Award. The seek of the Academy's awards database [http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp] proves this to become wrong. Both films he has worked in, Icarus Montgolfier Wright and Moby Dick have been nominated for Oscars, but Bradbury himself has non.

Trivia

1 swell known irony is that Bradbury, despite writing all about starship & interplanetary travel & getting sleep in Los Angeles for most of his life, has never caused the car. He attributes this to with seen the grim car accident while he was immature.

Bradbury never flew around an aeroplane until a age of 62. He did enjoy the ride in the Goodyear Blimp when he was 48.

Bradbury has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Bradbury has criticised & denounced film producer Michael Moore for giving a infotainment Fahrenheit 9/11 its title based on his classic act, calling Moore the "horrible human being." Bradbury said Moore "stole my title and changed the numbers without ever asking me for permission," and that "[politics] has nothing to do with it. He copied my title; that is what happened. That has nothing to do with my political opinions." He besides demanded an apology & for the film to become renamed. Bradbury himself has appropriated a titles of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) as a titles of his novel A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities (1990) and story collection Beyond 1984: A Rememberance of Things Future (1979), respectively.