The Martian Chronicles | Literary Precedents
Bradbury is a quintessentially American writer and several mainstream literary influences can be detected in The Martian Chronicles. Hemingway and Poe have already been mentioned and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) also seems to have played its part, especially in the short bridge chapters which Bradbury created when he was putting the stories into book form. The influence of any number of genre writers can also be detected, especially the Weird Tales authors Bradbury read as a teenager, along with such contemporaries and friends as Henry Kuttner, Leigh...
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