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Ray Bradbury (1920–2012), was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction author. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, he is considered the writer “most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream.”
Bradbury was an avid reader and writer throughout his youth in Waukegan Illinois, and began writing his own stories at eleven. His first story was published in 1938 in the fanzine Imagination!. Unable to join the military during World War II he was able to focus on his writing career and sold his first story at the age of twenty-two, and became a full-time writer by 1942. Bradbury used his writing to explore and criticize his culture and society.
