This novel was sold more than 5 million times and even though it was published 60 years ago its alarming story is still highly relevant and therefore depicts an important piece read by high school students and adults all over the world. The creation of the book cost a total of $9.80 due to the rental fees of the typewriters in the library. Also it was a library were he wrote one of his most famous novels and one of the most influential dystopian novels of all times, ‘Fahrenheit 451’. When his short stories turned out to be successful, he took up the career of a freelance writer and initially wrote for newspapers and magazines. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.” When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. In the same year Bradbury published his first story in the magazine Imagination!

In 1938 he graduated from Los Angeles High School.

During his school time, he continued writing and even though his teachers, who were aware of his great talent, wanted to support these interests, Bradbury never attended College. Wells, who later belonged to his major influences. Before moving to California, his family lived in Waukegan, Illinois where he spent much time in the local library reading Jules Verne or H.G. Especially Burroughs’ ‘John Carter, Warlord of Mars’ stayed in his memory, because he claims that this comic series was the reason why he began writing in the first place. Concerning literature, his early influences were more shaped by Edgar Allan Poe or Edgar Rice Burroughs. Since his family moved to Los Angeles when he was 14, Bradbury could sneak into places where the glamorous people from Hollywood spent their time. At young age, Ray Bradbury started his interest in writing, theater and acting. Ray Bradbury was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg of Sweden. Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, No Particular Night or Morning (1951) Ray Bradbury – Early Years I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.” Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Ray Bradbury has won every achievable writing award including the National Medal of Arts in 2004 and the National Book Foundation Medal in 2000. On August 22, 1920, the American novelist Ray Bradbury, best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, was born. Cover of Planet Stories Magazine, November 1953 with a Science Fiction story by Ray Bradbury

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