Ray Bradbury
| Noun | 1. | Ray Bradbury - United States writer of science fiction (born 1920) |
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Ray BradburyBradbury, Ray (Raymond Douglas Bradbury)(brăd`bĕr'ē, –bərē), 1920–2012, American writer, b. Waukegan, Ill. A popular and prolific writer of science fictionscience fiction,literary genre in which a background of science or pseudoscience is an integral part of the story. Although science fiction is a form of fantastic literature, many of the events recounted are within the realm of future possibility, e.g. ..... Click the link for more information. who did much to bring the genre into the mainstream of literature, Bradbury skillfully combined social and technological criticism with lyrical fantasy. His first book was the short-story collection Dark Carnival (1947). Bradbury's best-known work is probably The Martian Chronicles (1950), a collection of tales of a series of expeditions to Mars and of the ruin of Martian civilization by greedy and corrupt earthlings; it was made into a film (1966) and a TV miniseries (1980). His other volumes of stories include The Illustrated Man (1951), The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), The Last Circus and the Executioner (1980), The Toynbee Convector (1988), Quicker than the Eye (1996), and Driving Blind (1997). Among his novels are his most successful longer work, the dystopian Fahrenheit 451 (1953, film dir. by François TruffautTruffaut, François , 1932–84, French film director and critic. Known in his early 20s as a writer for the influential French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma, ..... Click the link for more information. , 1966), the autobiographical Dandelion Wine (1957), Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962, film 1983), The Halloween Tree (1972), and A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990). Bradbury also wrote scripts for plays, films, and television; a detective novel; children's stories; and poetry. During his lifetime, more than eight million copies of his books were sold, and his works were translated into 36 languages. BibliographySee his Zen in the Art of Writing (1990); biographies by W. L. Johnson (1980), D. Mogen (1986), S. Weller (2005), and J. R. Eller (2011); studies by G. E. Slusser (1977), W. F. Touponce (1989 and 1998), J. Anderson (1990), R. A. Reid (2000), H. Bloom, ed. (2001, repr. 2010). Bradbury, (Raymond Douglas) Ray(1920– ) writer; born in Waukegan, Ill. This Los Angeles-based writer secured a permanent reputation with such works as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Though best known for more than a dozen volumes of science-fiction stories (The Illustrated Man (1951), A Memory of Murder (1984)), he also wrote novels, drama, essays, and verse. His literary finesse and social criticism did much to make science fiction respectable.Ray Bradbury
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