Entry of my Choice
Ok I chose to do an entry of my choice...
So I’m going to write a biography about Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451 and his achievements. I personally don’t like his style of writing, but hey that doesn’t really matter. Here are some facts about his life...
Ok I chose to do an entry of my choice...
So I’m going to write a biography about Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451 and his achievements. I personally don’t like his style of writing, but hey that doesn’t really matter. Here are some facts about his life...
Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukega, Illinois. His heritage is Swedish (his parents were immigrants). He was born into a loving family and interestingly enough, his grandfather and great- grandfather were newspaper publishers. Ray and his family moved quite a lot, but finally settled down in Los Angeles, where Ray attended Los Angeles High School. There is an ‘unique’ story. While living in Los Angeles, Ray would often roller skate through Hollywood, trying to find celebrities. And he actually met one. He met George Burns, a radio star, who gave Ray his first pay as a writer. Ray’s ‘work’ was a joke contributed to the Burns and Allen show. Pretty weird. Anyways, Ray attended and graduated at Los Angeles High School. But he didn’t go to college. Pretty surprising don’t you think? Instead Ray sold newspapers on the streets. Yep, he actually did that. However, while selling newspapers, Ray taught himself at the public library. From there he began to publish science fiction works, and become the famous writer he is today.
Ray married Marguerite (Maggie) Susan McClure in September 27, 1947. They first met in a Fowler Brothers Bookstore, where Maggie worked. Her first impressions of Ray were good ones. She thought he was a thief! The book store had just had a robbery and for some reason Ray looked very suspicious to Maggie. So she started talking to him to try and under cover something. Ray then asked her out for a coffee and you know the rest. Maggie and Ray have 4 daughters, 8 grandkids and 4 cats. Sadly, Maggie is not alive anymore. She died in 2003. She was a big influence on Ray's writing.
Surprisingly, originally Ray didn’t want to be a writer, he wanted to be an actor. However, through some encouragement from his 2 high school teachers (Snow Longley Housh and Jeannet Johnson ) who recognized his talent for writing, he developed into the writer he is today. As you all know, he wrote Fahrenheit 451, but most of you probably didn’t know that he has published 500 works! Now that’s a lot of work. But all that hard work paid of; Ray won a whole bunch of awards. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life time Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letter, plus others. Ray is has a talent for writing has given life to many great books in this world today. Ray Bradbury is a one-of-a- kind writer.
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1 comment:
oh, I love this entry of yours~ So interesting to hear about his life away from his dark, gloomy books. I can't believe he wanted to be an actor. A writer and an actor are such different things. But I'd say he could have been one because of the third pic of him (he's so cute!) Haha, it's pretty funny how his wife used to think he was a thief. I can totally imagine them talking together, with her trying to eagerly get something and with him MAYBE thinking she's flirting with him or something. But it could have been better if you wrote more about their love life. Btw, is he dead?
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