| Term Paper Title | Ray Douglas Bradbury |
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Ray Douglas Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's Biography
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. In 1932, after
his father was laid off his job as a telephone lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and again
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," printed in 1938 in Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. In
1939, Bradbury 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 writing style. By 1943 he
had given up his job selling newspapers and began writing full-time, contributing numerous short stories to
periodicals. In 1945 his short story "The Big Black and White Game" was selected for Best American Short Stories. In 1947
Bradbury married Marguerite McClure, and that same year he gathered much of his best material and published them as Dark
Carnival, his first short story collection.
His reputation as a leading writer of science fiction was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950
(published in England under the title The Silver Locusts), which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and
colonize Mars, the constant thwarting of their efforts by the gentl...Read entire document
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