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Ray Bradbury
American author and screenwriter (1920–2012)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 22 August 1920
- Died
- 5 June 2012
- Place of birth
- Waukegan
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Bradbury
- Spouse
- Marguerite Bradbury
- Child
- Bettina F. Bradbury
- Occupation
- screenwriter, poet, writer, prose writer, novelist, science fiction writer, playwright, satirical novelist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- Unitarian Universalism
- Awards
- Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame, World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, First Fandom Hall of Fame award, Helmerich Award, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Ross Macdonald Literary Award, Valentine Davies Award, World Horror Convention Grand Master Award, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Inkpot Award, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- academic degree
- honorary doctorate, honorary doctorate, honorary doctorate
- bibliography
- bibliography of Ray Bradbury
- birth name
- Raymond Douglas Bradbury
- described by source
- ProDetLit, Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
- educated at
- Los Angeles High School
- end of work period
- 2012
- influenced by
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Karel Čapek, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, George Bernard Shaw, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Sherwood Anderson, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Leigh Brackett, Thomas Wolfe, Jack Williamson
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- Ray Douglas Bradbury
- nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Locus Award for Best Short Story, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Bram Stoker Award for Novel, British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, World Fantasy Award for Best Collection, World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
- notable work
- Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles, I Sing the Body Electric
- oral history at
- UCLA Center for Oral History Research
- place of burial
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- pseudonym
- William Elliot
- related category
- Category:Films with screenplays by Ray Bradbury
- residence
- Los Angeles
- start of work period
- 1938
- topic has template
- Template:Ray Bradbury
- topic's main category
- Category:Ray Bradbury
- writing language
- English
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