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Ray Bradbury was born in 1920 in Illinois, but, as a teenager, his family relocated to Los Angeles, where he lived the rest of his life. He began writing in high school and, by age 20, he had published his first short story in Weird Tales, a science fiction magazine. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Bradbury wrote several sci-fi novels, including Fahrenheit 451. In the 1970s and 1980s he explored other genres, such as poetry, crime fiction, and children’s stories. For many years, he also wrote scripts for television shows Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. He also had a cable television show, The Ray Bradbury Theater, that dramatized 65 of his short stories. Bradbury has won numerous awards for his writing, including the O. Henry Award, The World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award. Bradbury was married to his wife Marguerite McClure for 56 years and they raised four children. His wife passed away in 2003 and Bradbury passed away in 2012 at age 91. |
