Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, 1920. The third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. In the fall of 1926 Ray Bradbury's family moved from Waukegan, Illinois to Tucson, Arizona, only to return to Waukegan again in May 1927. By 1931, he began writing his own stories on butcher paper. In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as a telephone lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and later returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California. Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself at night in the library and by day at his typewriter.

He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942. Bradbury's first story publication was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," p

rinted in 1938 in Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. Bradbury's first paid publication was "Pendulum" in 1941 to Super Science Stories. In 1942, Bradbury wrote "The Lake," the story in which he discovered his distinctive writing style. In 1947 Bradbury married Marguerite McClure.

Orbitron space ride at Euro-Disney, France. He was creative consultant for the Jon Jerde Partnership, the architectural firm that blueprinted the Glendale Galleria and The Westside Pavilion in Los Angeles, and Horton Plaza in San Diego.

faster than it would under normal circumstances. Montag is opened up to the ways of a life in which people read, think, and live freely. He is forced out on his own, away from society, to live with others like himself that think differently than that of the society.

His political views against racism, censorship, and the use of nuclear war were themes that were common to his works. Mr. Bradbury is living today in California and is still active with his writing. Several generations of fiction readers have been influenced by this man. Ray Bradbury is truly one of America's greatest science fiction authors.

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