Ray Bradbury Biography Essay

“My stories run up and bite me in the leg - I respond by writing them down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea let's go and runs off.” -Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy and horror author and poet, who is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and is one of the most celebrated authors of the 21st century. Bradbury hated being called a science fiction writer because he believed his works were based in the realm of the fantastical and unreal world. Bradbury is also recognized for his works The Martian Chronicles (1950) , The Illustrated Man, (1951) and Something Wicked this Way Comes. (1962) Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22,1920. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a lineman for power and telephone utilities, and his mother ,Esther Moberg Bradbury, was a Swedish immigrant. Bradbury grew up in Waukegan, he later worked his childhood experiences into several of
Bradbury's best-known work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, became an instant classic in the era of McCarthyism, it’s exploration of the themes of conformity and censorship ,at a time when they were more relevant than ever, is one of the reasons the novel became such a huge success. Bradbury was able to Fahrenheit 451 within a 9 day time period while in the basement of a local library. In 2007, Bradbury stated that censorship was not the main theme of Fahrenheit 451, instead he explained the book was about how television stops people from reading. "Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was", said