Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury has been considered one of America's greatest
science-fiction writer's. His work often satires human nature and shows
his reader's the flaws found deep within the individual. Not only is
Bradbury a novelist, but he is also a , short-story writer, essayist,
playwright, screenwriter, and poet
Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920, the
third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg
Bradbury. In 1926 Ray Bradbury's family moved from Waukegan, Illinois
to Tucson, Arizona, only to return to Waukegan again in May 1927. By
1931 (the dawn of the Great Depression) he began writing his own
stories on butcher paper. In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as
a telephone lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and
again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury
family moved to Los Angeles, California.
Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His
formal......
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