In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie Library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H.
Bradbury began writing his own stories at age 12 (1931), sometimes writing on butcher paper. Throughout his youth, Bradbury was an avid reader and writer and knew at a young age that he was "going into one of the arts". Bradbury's first pay as a writer, at age 14, was for a joke he sold to George Burns to use on the Burns and Allen radio show. Among the creative and talented people he met were special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen and radio star George Burns. He often roller-skated through Hollywood in hopes of meeting celebrities. The family arrived with only US$40 (equivalent to $810 in 2021), which paid for rent and food until his father finally found a job making wire at a cable company for $14 a week (equivalent to $284 in 2021), allowing them to stay in Hollywood.īradbury attended Los Angeles High School and was active in the drama club. They eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1934 when Bradbury was 14. While in Tucson, Bradbury attended Amphi Junior High School and Roskruge Junior High School. The Bradbury family lived in Tucson, Arizona, during 1926–19–1933 while their father pursued employment, each time returning to Waukegan. In Bradbury's fiction, 1920s Waukegan becomes "Green Town", Illinois.īradbury as a senior in high school, 1938 This period provided foundations for both the author and his stories. An aunt read him short stories when he was a child.
He was given the middle name "Douglas" after actor Douglas Fairbanks.īradbury was surrounded by an extended family during his early childhood and formative years in Waukegan.
Early life īradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Esther (née Moberg) Bradbury (1888–1966), a Swedish immigrant, and Leonard Spaulding Bradbury (1890–1957), a power and telephone lineman of English ancestry.
The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. 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 (1957) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). īradbury wrote many works and is widely known by the general public for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951). One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Ray Douglas Bradbury ( / ˈ b r æ d ˌ b ɛ r i/ August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.
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