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Ray Bradbury


Born
in Waukegan, Illinois, The United States
August 22, 1920

Died
June 05, 2012

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Ray Douglas Bradbury 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.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adap
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Average rating: 3.99 · 3,371,352 ratings · 141,120 reviews · 2,358 distinct worksSimilar authors
Fahrenheit 451

3.97 avg rating — 2,463,496 ratings — published 1953 — 1027 editions
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The Martian Chronicles

4.15 avg rating — 265,330 ratings — published 1950 — 567 editions
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Something Wicked This Way C...

3.91 avg rating — 135,019 ratings — published 1962 — 180 editions
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The Illustrated Man

4.13 avg rating — 99,616 ratings — published 1951 — 52 editions
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Dandelion Wine

4.08 avg rating — 71,444 ratings — published 1957 — 228 editions
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The Halloween Tree

3.78 avg rating — 32,183 ratings — published 1972 — 130 editions
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Zen in the Art of Writing: ...

4.08 avg rating — 19,987 ratings — published 1973 — 79 editions
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The October Country

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4.12 avg rating — 19,003 ratings — published 1955 — 162 editions
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I Sing the Body Electric! &...

4.05 avg rating — 12,613 ratings — published 1969 — 96 editions
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The Veldt

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4.15 avg rating — 11,953 ratings — published 1950 — 22 editions
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Quotes by Ray Bradbury  (?)
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

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What book would you like to read for our March 2024 Group Read? The theme is Numbers.

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Fantasy, Mystery
 
  22 votes 22.2%

 
  14 votes 14.1%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Science Fiction, Dystopia
 
  14 votes 14.1%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Classics
 
  12 votes 12.1%

11/22/63 by Stephen King
Time Travel, Historical Fiction
 
  10 votes 10.1%

The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Historical Fiction
 
  8 votes 8.1%

 
  7 votes 7.1%

 
  5 votes 5.1%

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Fantasy, Science Fiction
 
  4 votes 4.0%

 
  3 votes 3.0%

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