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his birthday was August 22nd 1920

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He a famous writer.

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his death was June 5th ,2012

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His office was like a basement because it was fill with cartoons, stuffed animals, figurines,mask, and magic.

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He wrote his first short story by 11

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His parents loved that he was able to learn how to read at the age of 4.

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he was a toy collector

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He helped in the development of Disney world.

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Ray Bradbury used writing as a method of escape from the sad everyday life.

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Bradbury was a person who never gave up on his love of writing a lot of books.

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"Menachem Rephun discovered Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 in middle school and was hooked by ray's vibrant imagination"

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He made a book called "The Illustrated Man" Which was even rated by the New York Times. (Izzy)

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He made a book called "The Illustrated Man" Which was even rated by the New York Times. (Izzy)

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“Deftly plotted, beautifully written, characterized by protagonists who are intensely real. . . . There is no writer quite like Ray Bradbury.” —The New York Times

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Ray Bradbury never learned how to drive a car.

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“Long before I went to the regular library, I picked up on those elements of fantasy which I think influenced me and changed my life."

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The Halloween Tree became one of his best-known works.

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Rephun was a big fan of Bradbury

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One quote that Ray Bradbury had was, ”I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.” (Don Congdon Associates, raybradbury.com, The Ray Bradbury Literary Works, LLC, 2020, 5 Oct. 2022). One piece of information I found in the text was, "... many readers, Menachem Rephun discovered Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 in middle school and was hooked by the author’s vibrant imagination and poetic prose." Another piece of information I found in the text was, "As a writer and editor, he continues to explore how the lessons woven through Bradbury’s works are reflected in current events."

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He also made a book caled "Dandelion Wine"

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He also made a book caled "Dandelion Wine"

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Dandelion Wine is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury set in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. The novel developed from the short story "Dandelion Wine", which appeared in the June 1953 issue of Gourmet magazine
CLAIRE HARPER

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“you don’t know what’s in you until you test it.”
(Don Congdon Associates, rybradbury.com, The Ray Bradbury Literacy works, LLC, 2020, 5 Oct. 2022)

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He was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, IL. His father was a lineman for power and phone utilities. His mom was a Swedish Immigrant. Ray was obsessed with magicians. He and his family moved to LA, and graduated from High School at the age of 14, and he started selling newspapers then. In 1947, he began writing. He published his first book, Dark Carnival and that year he married Marguerite Susan McClure, whom he had met in a Los Angeles bookstore. He had 4 kids, Romona, Alexandra, Bettina, and Susan Bradbury, who are all girls. He suffered an illness and was confirmed dead on June 5th, 2012. He wrote 600 short stories before his passing.

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Ray likes doing magic and going to magician performances.

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He once described the kind of fiction he wrote as “really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together . . .”

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”I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.”(Don Congdon Associates, raybradbury.com, The Bradbury literacy works, LLC, 2020, 5 Oct. 2022).

In 1932, Bradbury was captivated by the performance of Mr. Electrico, a carnival magician.

Menachem Rephun discovered Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 in middle school and was hooked by the author’s vibrant imagination and poetic prose.

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he had a concern for the welfare and destiny of humans.

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He created novels Horror Books Young and Adult books Essay collections Poetry and even making a book about himself.

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he imagined ways to create a better world and offered cautions designed to sustain the one we have.

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Bradbury still dressed up for the holiday and enjoyed trick-or-treating all the same.

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he imagined ways to create a better world and offered cautions designed to sustain the one we have.

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One of his most famous short stories is "There Will Come Soft Rains" which is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a California city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm.

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“Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace. How carefully it had inquired,

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"...follows the advice he recalls Bradbury passing on: “Put your bottom in the chair. Write something.”   On days when a poem doesn’t spring to mind, he works on something formulaic–a sonnet, a sestina, a haiku–because he believes, as Bradbury did, that writers should write something every day to hone their craft."