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He claimed to remember his own birth. Ray adamantly maintained that he could remember his entire life, including the trauma of his own birth. It’s not exactly clear how his phenomenal memory factored into his writing, but he certainly knew how to keep his inner child alive.

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5. Playboy helped make Ray famous. Though he was already doing well as a science fiction writer, Bradbury wasn’t a household name until after Fahrenheit 451 was published. Even then, most people didn’t know who he was until Hugh Hefner took a chance and serialized the story in 3 issues of Playboy.

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5. American Writers Museum. (2022, October 17). Ray Bradbury 101. The American Writers Museum. https://americanwritersmuseum.org/ray-bradbury-101/

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5. Ray Bradbury left an indelible mark on literature and popular culture, with his works inspiring countless authors, filmmakers, and readers.Even president Barack Obama paid tribute to Bradbury, saying his "gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world"

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5. his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy. Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents William Congdon (accepting for Ray Bradbury) with a 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.

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Furthermore in his works, throughout Ray Bradbury's career he never was just considered a writer. He also wrote screenplays, essays, poetry and the known book genres like sci-fi, crime and fantasy.

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Bradbury enjoyed a relatively idyllic childhood in Waukegan, which he later incorporated into several semi-autobiographical novels and short stories. As a child, he was a huge fan of magicians, and a voracious reader of adventure and fantasy fiction — especially L. Frank Baum, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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5. A fix-up novel consisting of loosely connected stories about the colonization of Mars and the conflict between humans and Martians. It was published in 1950.

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5. Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois to a Swedish mother. He spent his early childhood in Waukegan, which later became the setting for semi-autobiographical works like Dandelion Win

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Bradbury’s commentaries on media and alienation have continued to be relevant in an increasingly tech-reliant society, but he also inspired many great creative minds to imagine what could be possible.

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His first official pay as a writer came for contributing a joke to George Burns' Burns & Allen Show.

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Ray married Marguerite "Maggie" McClure, whom he met while she was working as a clerk at a bookstore. McClure was the breadwinner in the early days of their marriage, supporting Bradbury as he worked on his writing for little to no pay. The couple had four daughters, Susan, Ramona, Bettina and Alexandra.

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5. Throughout his career, he contributed to various magazines, wrote plays for the Wilshire Players Guild, and was involved in numerous adaptations of his works into films and television series.

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One of the book's stories, “Homecoming,” earns him an O. Henry Award for one of the best American short stories of the year

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Ray Bradbury scored his first writing gig when he was still a teen

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In 1943 he began his career as a writer, and in 1947 he published his first collection of short stories, Dark Carnival.

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Ray Bradbury will always be remembered for his award-winning science fiction works and his love of knowledge and education.

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He made the critically acclaimed book the dandelion wine

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Prahl, A. (2020, February 24). Biography of Ray Bradbury, American author. ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-ray-bradbury-4797153

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In 1994, Bradbury became the recipient of an Emmy Award for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree.

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Ray Bradbury - books, Short Stories & Quotes. (n.d.). https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/ray-bradbury

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Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (2024, August 18). Ray Bradbury. Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ray-Bradbury

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