[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...

The Declining of the World's Parks While the state of the world’s parks is sometimes depressing, knowledge is our first step toward a solution.Not far from the western edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the shade of black birches, hemlocks, tulip poplars, and oaks...