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Born in Waukegan, Illinois
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In 1934 Ray Bradbury moves to Los Angeles, CA
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In 1937 Bradbury joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, where he received encouragement from young writers
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He published his own fanzine, Futuria Fantasia, in 1939. That same year Bradbury traveled to the first World Science Fiction convention, in New York City, where he met many of the genre’s editors.
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He made his first sale to a professional science fiction magazine in 1941, when his short story “Pendulum” (written with Henry Hasse) was published in Super Science Stories.
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The Martian Chronicles (1950), a series of short stories, depicts Earth’s colonization of Mars
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Bradbury’s next novel, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), is regarded as his greatest work.
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In the 1970s Bradbury no longer wrote short fiction at his previous pace, turning his energy to poetry and drama.
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IN 2004 Ray Bradbury won the National Medal of Arts for his writing. -
Ray Bradbury passed away on June 5th, 2012