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Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: / ˈ b r æ d b ɛr i / BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
(2011) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition – Volume 1, 1938–1943 (2014) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition – Volume 2, 1943–1944 (2017) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition – Volume 3, 1944–1945 (2020) Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury (2020)
The Nazi book burnings horrified Ray Bradbury and inspired him to write Fahrenheit 451. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), formed in 1938 to investigate American citizens and organizations suspected of having communist ties, held hearings in 1947 to investigate alleged communist influence in Hollywood movie-making. [17]
"Marionettes, Inc." is a short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, originally published in Startling Stories (March 1949) and later reprinted in his collection of short stories The Illustrated Man. In the story, Bradbury conjures a conflict between man and machine and depicts the human dependence on technology, a common theme for Bradbury's ...
"The Man Upstairs", a 1943 short story by Ray Bradbury from The October Country; The Man Upstairs, a 1953 play by Patrick Hamilton "The babysitter and the man upstairs", a 1960s urban legend; The Man Upstairs, a 1995 short story by Carolyn Banks
A comprehensive overview of Ray Bradbury's written works by Cochran, David (2000), "'I'm Being Ironic': Imperialism, Mass Culture, and the Fantastic World of Ray Bradbury", in Krstovic, Jelena (ed.), America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era, Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 55–72, ISBN ...
S is for Space (1966) is a collection of science fiction short stories written by Ray Bradbury. [1] It was compiled for the Young Adult sections of libraries. Contents
The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere. The collection was published in numerous editions by Ballantine Books.