Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter, born in Waukegan, Illinois, on 22 August 1920. He died on 5 June 2012. He grew up in the Midwest before his family moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for most of his adult life. A devoted reader and a self-taught writer, he spent long hours in libraries and sold his first stories to magazines while still young.

Bradbury is best known for science fiction and fantasy, though he often wrote about memory, childhood, fear and wonder rather than machines. His prose is lyrical and rich in imagery, and he did much to bring genre fiction to a wider literary audience. He wrote novels, hundreds of short stories, poems, plays and screenplays. His work on censorship, technology and human feeling still speaks to readers today, and many of his stories are widely taught in schools.