Ray Bradbury Biography

Fahrenheit 451 About the Author

Raymond Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Leonard Spaulding and Esther Moberg Bradbury. He began his writing career while still a teen-ager, publishing Futuria Fantasia, a fan magazine. His first professional sale, the short story "Pendulum," appeared in the November 1941 edition of Super Science Stories.

After working as a newsboy from 1940 until 1943, Bradbury turned to a fulltime writing career. During the 1940s, his work was published in several science-fiction magazines, including Weird Tales.

The 1950s and early 1960s proved to be Bradbury's most productive time as a fiction writer. Published in 1950, his first short story collection, The Martian Chronicles, achieved enormous popularity. Several more collections followed; The Illustrated Man, The Golden Apples of the Sun, A Medicine for Melancholy, and The Machineries of Joy were among the most successful. He also published three novels—Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion...
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