Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Bradbury is best known for his novel
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections
The Martian Chronicles (1950),
The Illustrated Man (1951),
The Veldt, and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel
Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including
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