Ray Bradbury


Ray Bradbury was a dreamer. Bradbury had a skill at putting his dreams
onto paper, and into books. He dreams dreams of magic and transformation, good
and evil, small-town America and the canals of Mars. His dreams are not only
popular, but durable. His work consists of short stories, which are not hard to
publish, and keep in the public eye. His stories have stayed in print for nearly
three decades.

Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in a small town of Waukegan,
Illinois. His parents were Leonard Spaulding and Esther Moberg Bradbury. His
mother, Esther Moberg loved films, she gave her son the middle name Douglas
because of Douglas Fairbanks, and she passed her love of films to her son. "My
mother took me to see everything....." Bradbury explains, "I'm a child of motion
pictures." Prophetically, the first film he saw, at the age of three, was the
horror classic "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", staring Lon Chanley. His teenage
Aunt Neva gave the boy his......

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