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Ray Bradbury is an American fantasy/ science fiction writer. He was born Ray Douglas Bradbury the third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. He was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920.

Ray was an avid reader as a child; he spent most of his time in the library. He started writing on butcher paper in 1931.In 1934 his family moved to Los Angeles, Bradbury often spent time roller-skating through Hollywood spotting stars. He soon met and befriended many talented people such as sound effects masterRay Harryhausen and radio star George Burns. Actually his first payed writing job was when he wrote a joke for the Burns and Allen radio show.

Ray went to high school at Los Angeles high school, he attended the drama club’ he planned to go into acting. But two of his teachers had other ideas; they noticed that he was a very talented writer. These two teachers decided to give him a higher education in writing. As time progressed Ray became very interested in writing and joined many extra-curricular writing clubs.

Ray Decided he did not want to pursue a college degree and instead acquired a job selling newspapers on a street corner. After work hours he self educated himself at the library, and when he wasn’t doing either of those he was behind his typewriter. His first published short story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," which was printed in a fan magazine called Imagination! In 1938. In 1939 he created his own fan magazine futuria fantasia.

In 1944 Ray decided to quit his job selling newspapers and be a Full time writer. In 1946 Ray met his future wife Marguerite McClure; she was a September 27, 1947; throughout the fifties they had 4 daughters. In the same year Ray also published his first collection of short stories entitled dark carnival.

In 1950 ray published one of his most famous works the Martian chronicles which follows the story of colonization of mars and of nuclear war on earth. And in 1953 he released one of his other most famous works Fahrenheit 451 which is about a world in the future where books are banned and are burned if spotted.

Starting in 1953 with the beast of 20,000 fathoms many of Ray’s books have been turned into movies and TV shows. Fahrenheit 451 was turned into a movie starring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, and Cyril Cusack. And the Martian chronicles was turned into a three part TV mini-series. Also a new Fahrenheit 451 movie is planned for 2010.

Ray has received many literary and arts awards such as the French Commandeur Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, An asteroid is named in his honour, "9766 Bradbury," along with a crater on the moon called "Dandelion Crater", a Prometheus Award for Fahrenheit 451, and the National Medal of Arts.

Ray now works as a creative consultant and has helped to create many shopping malls and plazas. Ray and Maggie still live in Los Angeles they have 8 grand children and 4 cats. Ray Bradbury is an exceptional man and he continues to amaze as at the age of 88 he still lectures and speaks at universities.