Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.

Bradbury was mainly known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man. Most of his best-known work is speculative fiction, but he also worked in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novel Dandelion Wine and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale.

He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. The New York Times called Bradbury ‘the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream.’’

Born: Ray Douglas Bradbury, August 22, 1920, Waukegan, Illinois, U.S. Died: June 05, 2012, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Resting place: Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles. Occupation: Writer. Education: Los Angeles High School. Genre: Fantasy, science fiction, horror fiction, mystery fiction, magic realism

Notable works: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Illustrated Man. Notable awards: American Academy of Arts and Letters (1954), Inkpot Award (1974), Daytime Emmy Award (1994), National Medal of Arts (2004), Pulitzer Prize Special Citation (2007).

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