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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury has been considered one of America’s greatest
science-fiction writer’s. His work often satires human nature and shows
his reader’s the flaws found deep within the individual. Not only is
Bradbury a novelist, but he is also a , short-story writer, essayist,
playwright, screenwriter, and poet
Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920, the
third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg
Bradbury. In 1926 Ray Bradbury\'s family moved from Waukegan, Illinois
to Tucson, Arizona, only to return to Waukegan again in May 1927. By
1931 (the dawn of the Great Depression) he began writing his own
stories on butcher paper. In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as
a telephone lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and
again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury
family moved to Los Angeles, California.
Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His
formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself. He went to
the library by night and by day at he worked at his typewriter. He sold
newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942.
Bradbury\'s first story publication was \"Hollerbochen\'s Dilemma,\" printed
in 1938 in Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. In 1939, Bradbury
published four issues of Futuria Fantasia, his own fan magazine,
contributing much of the published material himself. Bradbury\'s first
paid publication was \"Pendulum\" in 1941 to Super Science Stories. In
1942 Bradbury wrote \"The Lake,\" a short story later added to a collection
of short stories called The October Country. This was the story in which
Bradbury discovered his distinctive writing style. By 1943 he had given
up his job selling newspapers and began writing...
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