Bradbury, Ray (Vol. 1) - Bradbury, Ray 1920–
Bradbury, Ray 1920–
American writer of fantasy and science fiction writer. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
In intricately tracing out the first main steps of initiation for twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding, Ray Bradbury joins Dandelion Wine to a long and proud tradition in American literature. From the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin down through works by Charles Brockden Brown, Richard Henry Dana, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, and John Knowles, the theme of initiation has been one of the very strongest currents in American literature….
It is Ray Bradbury's style that remains his most distinguishing characteristic. It is the Bradbury style which is unmistakable, which is his alone. Gilbert Highet writes that his style is "a curious...
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