Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery author. well known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction novels gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American authors of speculative fiction and has been described as a Midwest surrealist. Many of Bradbury's books have been adapted into TV programs or movies.
Bradbury started life in Waukegan, Illinois, he was the brother of two older twin boys, to a Swedish immigrant mom, Ester Moberg Bradbury, and a dad, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, who was a power and telephone lineman. His paternal grandfather and great-grandfather were newspaper publishers.
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He is related to the American Shakespeare scholar Douglas Spaulding. Ray is also directly descended from Mary Bradbury who was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. She was married to Captain Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts.
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Bradbury was a reader and author throughout his youth, spending much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, Illinois, reading such writers as H. Wells, Jules Verne, and his favorite writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs who created stories such as Tarzan and Warlord of Mars. Bradbury was pushed to composing by his aunt, who read him short novels when he was a child.
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