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Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to a father of English descent and a Swedish immigrant mother. During Bradbury’s childhood, his family moved back and forth several times between Illinois and Arizona before settling in Los Angeles, California, around the time that Bradbury started high school. Even after the family put down new roots in LA, Waukegan remained important to Bradbury, turning up later in his fiction as Green Town, Illinois—the setting for several of his most famous stories, including “Something Wicked This Way Comes.” Small-town America provides an important backdrop for many of Bradbury’s works. For example, “Zero Hour” is set in an idyllic suburban neighborhood.
Bradbury was immersed in the arts from an early age. As a young child, he was an avid reader who could often be found in the library. By the age of 12, he had begun to write his own stories styled after the works of his favorite writers, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Edgar Rice Burroughs. These influences would be essential for the development of Bradbury’s writing—he would go on to credit reading and libraries with providing him an education since he did not attend college.
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All Summer In A Day
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A Sound Of Thunder
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Dandelion Wine
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Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
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Death is a Lonely Business
Death is a Lonely Business
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Fahrenheit 451
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Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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The Halloween Tree
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The Illustrated Man
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The Martian Chronicles
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The Other Foot
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The Pedestrian
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There Will Come Soft Rains
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The Toynbee Convector
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The Veldt
The Veldt
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