Ray Bradbury biography

Bradbury's short film 'Icarus Montgolfier Wright' was nominated for an Academy award in 1963. In addition to fiction Bradbury wrote 'Zen and the Art of Writing' and also published such dramas as 'The Anthem Sprinters’, 'The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, The Pedestrian’, and volumes of poetry including 'When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed', 'Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Around in Robot Towns', and 'The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope'. Bradbury also wrote for television, including eight episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. His science fiction and fantasy short-story collections included 'The Martian Chronicles', 'The Illustrated Man', and 'Dinosaur Tales'. He sold his first short story when he was 21 years old. In 1956 he collaborated with John Huston to create the screenplay for 'Moby Dick'.

Bradbury's 1980 collection, 'The Stories of Ray Bradbury', covers a wide range of topics, none of which is truly science fiction. His early stories were published in pulp magazines, but Bradbury later published stories in such mainstream magazines as The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, and the Saturday Evening Post.

In 1954 Bradbury was honored with an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters for his contribution to American literature. Bradbury received critical praise for the precision and creativity of his writing and for the freshness of his imagery. 'Fahrenheit 451' was made into a motion picture in 1966, and 'The Martian Chronicles' later appeared both as a motion picture and a television miniseries.