Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter, one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth century. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery and realistic fiction, and he is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451. Born in 1920 and dying in 2012. His story collections include The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man and The October Country, and other notable works include Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, and many of his works were adapted for television and film.