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[This entry was updated by Gary K. Wolfe (Roosevelt University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 16-33.] Although Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and althou...

Although Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and although his stories and themes have permeated all areas of American culture as have those of no other science-fiction writer—through more than five hundred st...

Ray Bradbury is an interesting writer who has unjustly suffered from critical neglect. In a sense he has been the victim of a genre. To consider his work as "science fiction" or "fantasy"--no matter how good--is to damn it, for invariably these modes are...

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1920. Although he had moved to os Angeles, California, by the time he was twelve years old, he retained vivid memories of life in his small Midwestern birthplace. By focusing...

Dandelion Wine is a 1957 semi-autobiographical novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois — a pseudonym for Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. The title refers to a wine...

In the following essay, Person evaluates the thematic and stylistic influence of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio on Bradbury's Dandelion Wine.

In the following essay, Rosenman finds parallels between Faulkner's story “That Evening Sun” and Bradbury's novella That Dandelion Wine, particularly the emphasis of heaven and hell in their work.

[Dandelion Wine] has no more reason to end than it has to begin. Its cause and effect relationship is a spontaneous one, for which A leads to B, and Z again to A. It is a brief glimpse on a crowded street of a stranger one can never forget and always love. It has the drug color vividness of black and white photography, giving the honest shade and contrast of face stories at moments removed from motion, from time, from definition. But, in the same breath, it has a prescribed structure, with Douglas, his brot...

The essay argues that Ray Bradbury's negative attitude towards technology in the book "Dandelion Wine" shows that he believes that technology does more harm than good to society.

Analyzes the Ray Bradbury novel, Dandelion Wine. Discusses Bradbury's premise is that in life, there are two major themes of magic. One is demonstrated through fairy-tales which include characters such as witches and monsters. The more inconspicuous but most important trait is the magic of existence.

How Bradbury exposes his distaste of technology and his mistrust of machines in his novel Dandelion Wine. Examines how characters react to these machines and to the change they bring about in their lives.