Why is Ray Bradbury important?

Personal Background American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet — Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on A. ... read more

To learn even more about Ray, we suggest you take a look at Sam Weller's authorized biography THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES: The Life of Ray Bradbury, available in paperback from Harper Perennial. To read Sam Weller's appreciation of Ray's wife, Marguerite Bradbury, on the sad occasion of her death, please click here. read more

Ray Bradbury was an American fantasy and horror author who rejected being categorized as a science fiction author, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. His best known novel is Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian study of future American society in which critical thought is outlawed. read more

Bradbury and director Charles Rome Smith co-founded Pandemonium in 1964, staging the New York production of The World of Ray Bradbury (1964), adaptations of "The Pedestrian", "The Veldt", and "To the Chicago Abyss". read more