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- The Illustrated Man
- The Martian Chronicles, 1950
- Fahrenheit 451, 1953
- Dandelion Wine, 1957
- Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962
- The Halloween Tree, 1972
- Death Is a Lonely Business, 1985
- A Graveyard for Lunatics, 1990
- Green Shadows, White Whale, 1992
- Let's All Kill Constance, 2002
- It Came From Outer Space, 2003
- Farewell Summer, 2006
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Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
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Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer known best for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.
Honors and awards
* For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Ray Bradbury was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6644 Hollywood Blvd.
* An asteroid is named in his honor, (9766) Bradbury, along with a crater on the moon called "Dandelion Crater" (named after his novel, Dandelion Wine).
* On November 17, 2004, Bradbury was the recipient of the National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush and Laura Bush. Bradbury has also received the World Fantasy Award life achievement, Stoker Award life achievement, SFWA Grand Master, SF Hall of Fame Living Inductee, and First Fandom Award. He received an Emmy Award for his work on "The Halloween Tree."
* The "About the Author" sections in several of his published works claim that he has been nominated for an Academy Award. A search of the Academy's awards database [2] proves this to be incorrect. Two films he worked on, Icarus Montgolfier Wright and Moby Dick, were nominated for Academy Awards, but Bradbury himself has not.
Trivia# One well known irony is that Bradbury, despite writing about spaceships and interplanetary travel and having lived in Los Angeles for most of his life, has never driven a car. He attributes this to having seen a gruesome car accident when he was young.
# Bradbury never flew in an airplane until the age of 62. He did enjoy a ride in the Goodyear Blimp when he was 48.
# At the age of fifteen, Bradbury read Jack Woodford's book on writing, Trial and Error, which had a large influence on his career. He also attributes his lifelong daily writing habit to the day in 1932 when a carnival entertainer, Mr. Electrico, touched him with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, "Live forever!"
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