American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 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. His childhood was very important to him because it was a constant source of intense sensations, feelings, and images that generate great stories. As a child he was first inspired by seeing "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". "His childhood was that of a p

In Fahrenheit 451, a man by the name of Guy Montag was the one to start fires and little did he know when he started a conversation with a seventeen year old girl, he began to question the pleasure of the midnight runs and the joy of watching pages consumed by flames. He yet understands why his wife Mildred would overdose on pills and would now seem to act in different ways. Soon after he began to wonder what urges people to read and what people talk about. During one of the midnight runs he encountered a woman who would refuse to leave her home, and as Montag was going through the books he happen to catch a glimpse of a page and read it in which it infuriated him and he crushed the book with wild devotion. He was surprised to find out that the Captain knew a little bit of information from books, but never to much for it will go against rules. From the fire he managed to grab a book and when he reached home he stuffed it underneath his pillow and began to talk with Mildred, which seemed odd to him and to the things she could not remember and other things that she just blurted out. The whole idea of him thinking and actually questioning things, that were stated facts in everyone else's terms, completely frightened him.

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," printed in 1938 in Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. In 1939, 11Bradbury published four issues of "Futuria Fantasia", his own fan magazine, contributing much of the published material himself. 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 writin

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