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Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury was a dreamer. Bradbury had a skill at putting his dreams onto paper, and into books. He dreams dreams of magic and transformation, good and evil, small-town America and the canals of Mars. His dreams are not only popular, but durable. His work consists of short stories, which are not hard to publish, and keep in the public eye. His stories have stayed in print for nearly three decades.

Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in a small town of Waukegan,
Illinois. His parents were Leonard Spaulding and Esther Moberg Bradbury. His mother, Esther Moberg loved films, she gave her son the middle name Douglas because of Douglas Fairbanks, and she passed …show more content…

In 1938 Los Angeles
High School yearbook, the following prediction appeared beneath his picture:

Likes to write stories Admired as a thespian Headed for literary distinction

After graduation Bradbury sold newspapers until he saved up enough money to buy a typewriter and rent a small office. In the early 1940's his stories appeared regularly in Weird Tales. "I sold a story every month there for three or four years when I was (in my early twenties). Made the magnificent sum of twenty dollars for each story." Bradbury sold his first stories in 1945 to
"slick" magazines - Collier's, Charm, and Mademoiselle.

Shortly after his marriage to Marguerite Susan McClure in 1947,
Bradbury's first book, Dark Carnival, was published by Arkham House. About this time, the idea for an important book about Mars, a collection of loosely connected stories, came to Bradbury.

The subjects that engage Bradbury's pen are many: magic, horror, and monsters; rockets, robots, time and space travel; growing up in the Midwest town in the 1920's, and growing old in an abandoned Earth colony on another planet.
Despite their themes, his stories contain a sense of wonder, often a sense of joy, and a lyrical and rhythimic touch that sets his work apart.

Using an analytical approach to such stories is to do a kind of violence to them, but between the dream and the finished story is a

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