Bradbury, Ray [Douglas]
Bradbury, Ray [Douglas]( 1920– ),born in Illinois, long resident in Los Angeles, began to publish in pulp magazines, but after 1945 became known for serious stories. These include works of both fantasy and science fiction, now macabre, now humorous, collected in volumes including Dark Carnival (1947); The Martian Chronicles (1950), titled The Silver Locusts in England), about Mars a century hence; The Illustrated Man (1951); The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), satirical sketches; October Country (1955); A Meditation for Melancholy (1959); R Is for Rocket, S Is for Space (1962); The Machineries of Joy (1964); Twice Twenty-Two (1966); Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine (1968); and I Sing the Body Electric (1969). His novels include Fahrenheit 451 (1953), presenting a future totalitarian state in which super-television presents all...
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