• born on August 22, 1920; died June 5, 2012 ¬author and poet
• rejected being categorized as a science
• fiction author, he wanted to be a fantasy/horror author.
• won the Pulitzer prize for his distinguished career ¬
• had four daughters
• ¬married wife in 1947 (same year as his first collection of short stories was published)
• fiction with a more developed writing style
• Fahrenheit 451 is his most famous work
• ¬won an Emmy
• he was also a technophobe, didn’t drive a car or trust computers/internet