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Biography of Ray Bradbury
Name: Ray Bradbury
Birth Date: August 22, 1920
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Waukegan, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, editor, poet, screenwriter, dramatist
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury (born 1920) was among the first authors to combine the concepts of science fiction with a sophisticated prose style. Often described as economical yet poetic, Bradbury's fiction conveys a vivid sense of place in which everyday events are transformed into unusual, sometimes sinister situations.Bradbury began his career during the 1940s as a writer for such pulp magazines as Black Mask,Amazing Stories, and Weird Tales. The latter magazine served to showcase the works of such fantasy writers as H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and August Derleth. Derleth, who founded Arkham House, a publishing company specializing in fantasy literature, accepted one of Bradbury's stories for Who Knocks?, an anthology published by his firm. Derleth subsequently suggested that Bradbury compile a volume of his own stories; the resulting book, Dark Carnival (1947), collects Bradbury's early fantasy tales. Although Bradbury rarely published pure fantasy later in his career, such themes of …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…in American literature1939-1945: World War II1950-1953: Korean War1957-1975: Vietnam War1960-present: Postmodernist Period in American literature1983: American invasion of Grenada1991: Persian Gulf WarBradbury's contemporaries:Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-) American poetJ.D. Salinger (1919-) American writerMontgomery Clift (1920-1966) American actorIsaac Asimov (1920-1992) Russian-born American writerJohn Glenn (1921-) American astronaut and senatorJack Kerouac (1922-1969) American novelistSelected world events:1927: Charles Lindbergh flew solo across Atlantic1930: Gandhi led Salt March in India1969: N. Scott Momaday's Way to Rainy Mountain published1981: IBM introduced its first personal computer1991: Soviet Union was officially dissolved Further Reading Authors in the News, Gale, Volume 1, 1976, Volume 2, 1976.Amis, Kingsley, New Maps of Hell, Ballantine, 1960, pp. 90-7.Berton, Pierre, Voices from the Sixties, Doubleday, 1967, pp. 1-10.Breit, Harvey, The Writer Observed, World Publishing, 1956.Clareson, Thomas D., editor, Voices for the Future: Essays on Major Science Fiction Writers, Volume 1, Bowling Green State University Press, 1976.Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography: Broadening Views, 1968-1988, Gale, 1989.Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 1, 1973, Volume 3, 1975, Volume 10, 1979, Volume 15, 1980, Volume 42, 1987.
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