Ray Bradbury

American author and screenwriter

1920 - 2012

genre: science fiction, fantasy, horror literature
country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: Los Angeles High School
occupation: screenwriter, poet, writer, prosaist, novelist, science fiction writer
award received: Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame, Prometheus Award, World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, First Fandom Hall of Fame award, Helmerich Award, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Ross Macdonald Literary Award, Valentine Davies Award, World Horror Convention Grand Master Award, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Inkpot Award, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, National Medal of Arts, Emmy Award, Sir Arthur Clarke Award
influenced by: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Karel Čapek, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, George Bernard Shaw, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Sherwood Anderson, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Leigh Brackett, Thomas Wolfe, Jack Williamson, George Orwell, Jules Verne, John Steinbeck, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Aldous Huxley, Stanley G. Weinbaum
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Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction. Widely known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953), and his science-fiction and horror-story collections, The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and I Sing the Body Electric (1969), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. While most of his best known work is in speculative fiction, he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novel Dandelion Wine (1957) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). Recipient of numerous awards, including a 2007 Pulitzer Citation, Bradbury also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted to comic book, television, and film formats. Upon his death in 2012, The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
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