Ray Bradbury's work has been included in four Best American Short Story collections. His short stories have appeared in more than 1,000 school curriculum "recommended reading" anthologies. In all, Bradbury has published more than thirty books, close to 600 short stories, and numerous poems, essays, and plays.
Other works include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric!, Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In an attempt to salvage their history and culture, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy as their books are burned by the totalitarian state. Next came The Illustrated Man and then, in 1953, Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece, a scathing indictment of censorship set in a future world where the written word is forbidden. 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. 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.
street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A.
He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938.
Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born Augin Waukegan, Illinois. This collection (1959, revised 1963) was released in the US under the title A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) containing a slightly different list of stories. The Sunset Harp (1959, variant of The Shoreline at Sunset)įront cover illustration by Adrian Chesterman The Wonderful Ice-Cream Suit (1963, variant of The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1958)) Ray Bradbury is one of the few speculative writers to have created an identifiable and unified world of his own from the nostalgia, mystery and romance of the mid-West, to the new colonies uneasily settling on the sands of Mars or the sinister tension of post-holocaust Mexico, his stories are a haunting evocation of the Gothic and the fanciful.
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