Raymond Douglas BradburyBorn in Waukegan, Illinois, The United States August 22, 1920Died June 05, 2012Website http://www.raybradbury.com/Страницы с книгами автора на Других языках в библиотеке КулЛиб (просьба не объединять!):Болгарский: http://coollib.net/a/46200Русский и беларусский: http://coollib.net/a/590American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947. His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and then, in 1953, Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury