Ray Douglas Bradbury Was Born In Waukegan, Illinois On August

Term Paper Title	Ray Douglas Bradbury Was Born In Waukegan, Illinois On August
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Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August

22,1920. He was the third born son of Leonard Spauldling Bradbury and

Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. In the fall of 1926 the Bradbury family

moved from their home in Waukegan to Tucson, Arizona. However, their

stay there only lasted until May of 1927 when they moved back to their

original habitation. Bradbury began writing his own literature on butcher

paper when he was 11 years old. Ray and his family moved again moved to

Tucson, Arizona and back to Waukegan, Illinois again in 1932. This rapid

movement was initiated when Leonard Bradbury was laid off from his job

installing telephone lines, only to be rehired later in the year. In 1934 the

Bradbury family moved yet again, but this time to Los Angeles, California.

Ray attended high school in Los Angeles. He graduated in 1938,

finishing his formal school career. Bradbury decided that in order to further

his education, he would spend his days at his typewriter and his nights at the

library, reading. Since he needed a way to make some money to get by, Ray

took a job selling newspapers on Los Angeles street corners. His

first published story was “Hollerbocher’s Dilemma,” which was printed in

an amateur fan magazine in 1938. In 1939, Ray published four issues of

Futuria Fantasia, his own fan magazine, in which he contributed most of the

published material. Bradbury’s first paying gig, was “Pendulum,” which was

published in Super Science Stories in 1941. Finally in 1942 he discovered

his distinctive style of writing after writing “The Lake.” By 1943 he had

given up selling newspapers, and began a full-time job as a free lance write

for many periodicals. In 1945 the magazine Best American Short Stories,

selected Bradbury’s short story “The Big Black and White Game,” to appear

in an issue of the magazine. Bradbury’s most significant published works

up until the present include: Dark Carnival in 1947, The Martian Chronicles

in 1950, Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, and many short stories, screenplays, essays

and poems which are too numerous to name.

Ray Bradbury’s writing has been critically acclaimed and heralded as

some of the most influential media in the Science-Fiction genre. So far is his

lifetime Ray has received the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin

Franklin award in 1954, the Aviation-Space Writer’s Association Award for

best article in an American Magazine i

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