His first printed story was The Homecoming (about about a boy who feels isolated among a gathering of night creature relatives) and 'Dark Carnival' his first book collection via a small press company. His many written works have been translated into numerous languages, and he is internationally acclaimed for being a prolific author of fantasy-laden science fiction and horror. One of the Apollo space teams named Dandelion Crater on the moon in honour of his novel, Dandelion Wine. He also wrote the basic scenario for the interior of Spaceship Earth at EPCOT, Disney World, and has conducted consultant work on city engineering and rapid transit. He has written for television (including The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and the excellent Ray Bradbury Theatre ), radio and the theatre, and the screenplays for It Came From Outer Space Moby Dick and Something Wicked This Way Comes which was adapted from his own novel.īradbury was ideas consultant for the United States Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair. Henry Memorial Award The Benjamin Franklin Award in 1954 The Aviation-Space Writer's Association Award, for best space article in an American magazine in 1967 The World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, The Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and the National Medal of Arts award, presented by George W. His work was selected for best American short story collections in 1946, 19.
Since that time, he has gone on to publish more than 100 short stories, novels, poems, and plays. Weird Tales accepted his first science fiction short story when he was twenty, and this was followed by a succession of other stories which appeared in the budding SF and fantasy magazines of the time. He furthered his education with frequent nightly visits to the library and many days at the typewriter. Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA, in 1920, and attended Los Angeles High School, from which he graduated in 1938.
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