Essay About Third Son Of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury And Ray Bradburys Family

Ray Bradbury
Essay title: Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury has been considered one of Americas greatest
science-fiction writers. His work often satires human nature and shows
his readers the flaws found deep within the individual. Not only is
Bradbury a novelist, but he is also a , short-story writer, essayist,
playwright, screenwriter, and poet
Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920, the
third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg
Bradbury. In 1926 Ray Bradburys family moved from Waukegan, Illinois
to Tucson, Arizona, only to return to Waukegan again in May 1927. By
1931 (the dawn of the Great Depression) he began writing his own
stories on butcher paper. In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as
a telephone lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and
again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury
family moved to Los Angeles, California.
Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His
formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself. He went to
the library by night and by day at he worked at his typewriter. He sold
newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942.
Bradburys first story publication was “Hollerbochens Dilemma,” printed
in 1938 in Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. In 1939, Bradbury
published four issues of Futuria Fantasia, his own fan magazine,
contributing much of the published material himself. Bradburys first
paid publication was “Pendulum” in 1941 to Super Science Stories. In
1942 Bradbury wrote “The Lake,” a short story later added to a collection
of short stories called The October Country. This was the story in which
Bradbury discovered his distinctive writing style. By 1943 he had given
up his job selling newspapers and began writing full-time, contributing
numerous short stories to periodicals. In 1945 his short story “The Big
Black and White Game” was selected for Best American Short Stories. In
1947 Bradbury married Marguerite McClure, and that same year he
gathered much of his best material and published them as , his first
short story collection.
His reputation as a leading writer of science fiction was established
with the publication of in 1950 (published in England under the title
The Silver Locusts), which describes the first attempts of Earth people to
conquer and colonize Mars, the constant thwarting of their efforts by the
gentle, telepathic Martians, the eventual colonization, and finally the
effect on the Martian settlers of a massive nuclear war on Earth. As
much a work of social criticism as of science fiction, The Martian
Chronicles reflects some of the prevailing anxieties of America in the early
atomic age of the 1950s: the fear of nuclear war, the longing for a
simpler life, reactions against racism and censorship, and fear of foreign
political powers. The book was definitely a reflection of the times in
which he lived.
Another of Bradburys best-known works, the novel , was released
in 1953 and is set in a future when the written word is forbidden. Books
are burned when found,