[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...

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...

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...

Although well-known to and beloved by many as a leading writer of science fiction, Ray Bradbury is a far more complicated subject than most may realize. In the world of science fiction, he is an object of admiration and dismay, while outside the genre,...

Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his...

YOU MIGHT THINK that a man who wrote 30 books, 20 plays, two musicals, two space-age cantatas, 12 books of poetry, three books of essays, half-a-dozen film scripts and 500 short stories would need a vacation now and then. Not Ray Bradbury. "I've never...

Harold Bloom, ed. Ray Bradbury. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2001. vii + 159 pp. $36.95. RAY BRADBURY is a recent contribution to the Modern Critical Views series published by Chelsea House. However, the newness suggested by its publication date is most deceptive. Actually,...

For reasons I can’t explain, science fiction has always sent me to sleep. Perhaps it’s because I find living in the present scary enough. The pleasures of Ray Bradbury’s futuristic work—let alone H.G. Wells’—have passed me by. Even Truffaut’s film of Mr. Bradbury’s 1953 classic,...

For reasons I can’t explain, science fiction has always sent me to sleep. Perhaps it’s because I find living in the present scary enough. The pleasures of Ray Bradbury’s futuristic work—let alone H.G. Wells’—have passed me by. Even Truffaut’s film of Mr. Bradbury’s 1953 classic,...

In the following essay, Wolfe links “the traditional frontier orientation of much of American literature” and Bradbury's science fiction tales.

In the following essay, Wolfe surveys the major characteristics of Bradbury's post-holocaust science fiction.

In the following essay, Mogen explores mythopoetic elements in Bradbury's space-frontier fiction.

The essay is about the American author, Ray Bradbury in relation to his works.

Provides biographical detail on the life of writer Ray Bradbury. Describes his early life and inspirations. Examines how he became one of the most famous science fiction writers of all time.