Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third child of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. In the fall of 1926, the Bradbury's moved to Tucson, Arizona, only to return to Waukegan in May of 1927. By 1931, he had begun to write his own short stories on pieces of butcher paper. When his father was laid off in 1932, the family moved down to Tucson and then returned the following year to Waukegan. In 1934, the family found its way out to

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Bradbury overcame many incidents to become an important science fiction writer. His extensive imagination allowed him to cover many areas of art and literature.

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