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Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920. At the age of fifteen, he started submitting short stories to national magazines. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 600 stories, poems, essays, plays, films, television plays, radio, music, and comic books. His books include The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Bradbury Speaks. He won numerous awards for his works including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1977, the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted 65 of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. The film The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit was written by Ray Bradbury and was based on his story The Magic White Suit. He was the idea consultant and wrote the basic scenario for the United States pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair, as well as being an imagineer for Walt Disney Enterprises, where he designed the Spaceship Earth exhibition at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center. He died after a long illness on June 5, 2012 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Fahrenheit 451… (more)
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The Martian Chronicles 16,106 copies, 308 reviews
Something Wicked This Way Comes 10,949 copies, 292 reviews
The Illustrated Man 8,619 copies, 140 reviews
Dandelion Wine 7,309 copies, 184 reviews
The October Country 3,363 copies, 51 reviews
Zen in the Art of Writing 2,534 copies, 56 reviews
The Halloween Tree 2,515 copies, 88 reviews
The Golden Apples of the Sun 2,029 copies, 33 reviews
I Sing the Body Electric 1,795 copies, 20 reviews
From the Dust Returned 1,661 copies, 44 reviews
Death is a Lonely Business 1,276 copies, 19 reviews
The Stories of Ray Bradbury 1,258 copies, 15 reviews
R is for Rocket 1,243 copies, 15 reviews
The Machineries of Joy 1,199 copies, 12 reviews
Quicker Than the Eye 1,194 copies, 15 reviews
The Toynbee Convector 1,146 copies, 12 reviews
Long After Midnight (Author) 1,085 copies, 23 reviews
Farewell Summer 1,063 copies, 40 reviews
A Graveyard for Lunatics 951 copies, 13 reviews
S is for Space 855 copies, 13 reviews
Driving Blind 774 copies, 8 reviews
One More for the Road 714 copies, 10 reviews
A Medicine for Melancholy 680 copies, 7 reviews
The Vintage Bradbury 603 copies, 4 reviews
Let's All Kill Constance 554 copies, 9 reviews
The Cat's Pajamas 531 copies, 13 reviews
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We'll Always Have Paris 377 copies, 11 reviews
Dinosaur Tales 326 copies, 3 reviews
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Switch on the Night 204 copies, 5 reviews
The Veldt [short story] 197 copies, 4 reviews
Summer Morning, Summer Night 150 copies, 3 reviews
Dark Carnival 146 copies, 6 reviews
A Sound of Thunder [short story] 139 copies, 5 reviews
Killer, Come Back To Me 121 copies, 4 reviews
Pillar of Fire 105 copies, 3 reviews
Something Wicked This Way Comes [1983 film] (Screenwriter/Original book) 94 copies, 2 reviews
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Time Untamed 79 copies, 2 reviews
Fever Dream: & other Fantasies 77 copies, 3 reviews
The Playground 76 copies, 4 reviews
All Summer in a Day 70 copies, 15 reviews
Tomorrow Midnight 54 copies, 1 review
Marionettes, Inc. 53 copies, 1 review
Huhtikuun noita 52 copies, 3 reviews
With Cat for Comforter 50 copies, 1 review
Kaleidoscope 44 copies
Mars and the Mind of Man 41 copies, 1 review
The Fog Horn 37 copies, 1 review
Frost and Fire [Graphic Novel] 34 copies, 1 review
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Skeletons 27 copies
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Lorelei of the Red Mist (Author) 19 copies, 2 reviews
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Night Screams (Contributor) 78 copies, 5 reviews
The Dark Side (Contributor) 78 copies, 1 review
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In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.

Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."
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