The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Most of his best known work is speculative fiction, but he also worked in other genres, such as the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). īradbury wrote many works and is widely known by the general public for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951). One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Ray Douglas Bradbury ( / ˈ b r æ d ˌ b ɛ r i/ August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.
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