Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (Waukegan (Illinois), August 22, 1920 – June 5, Los Angeles, 2012) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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[hide]*1 career

• 2 Main prizes and awards
• 3 Partial bibliography
• 4 external link

Career

Bradbury moved to Los Angelesin 1934. His first book, Dark Carnival, the bundle was released in 1947. Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles to his most important works are counted.

Bradbury has contributed to a number of scenarios , including those for the Moby Dick films and King of Kings (1961), both directed by John Huston. He wrote all the episodes of the television series The Ray Bradbury Theater and a number of stories for The Twilight Zone .

Bradbury died in June 2012 at the age of 91.

Main awards and honors

• World Fantasy Award (1977)-Life Achievement
• Gandalf Grand Master Award (1980)-Life Achievement
• Nebula Grand Master Award (1989)-Life Achievement
• Bram Stoker Award (1989)-Life Achievement
  • One More for the Road (2003)-Best Fiction Collection
• Ray Bradbury Award -set up in 1992 by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
• Emmy Award (1994)-Screenplay of The Halloween Tree
• National Book Award (2000)-Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
• Hugo Award
  • Fahrenheit 451 (2004)-Retro Hugo for Best Novel
• National Medal of Arts (2004)
• Pulitzer Prize (2007)-Special Citation
• Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2007)-Commander

Partial bibliography

Novels

• The Martian Chronicles (1950-NL:the last Martiaan and more extensive as the Chronicles of Mars)
• Fahrenheit 451 (1953-en:Fahrenheit 451)
• Dandelion Wine (1957)
• Something Wicked this Way Comes (1962-en:to the stinging of my thumbs)
• The Halloween Tree (1972)
• Death Is a Lonely Business (1985-en:death Is a Lonely Adventure)
• A graveyard for lunatics (1990)
• Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)
• From the Dust Returned (1999)
• Let's All Kill Constance (2002)
• Farewell Summer (2006)

Story Collections

• Dark Carnival (1947)
• The Illustrated Man (1951-en:the illustrated Man)
• The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953-en:the golden apples of the Sun)
• The October Country (1955-en:Macabre Carnival)
• The Day It Rained Forever (1959)
• A Medicine for Melancholy (1959)
• R Is for Rocket (1962-NL:The R of rocket)
• The Small Assassin (1962)
• The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics (1963)
• The Machineries of Joy (1964)
• The Autumn People (1965)
• S Is for Space (1966)
• Twice 22 (1966)
• I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
• Long After Midnight (1976-en:long after Midnight)
• To Sing Strange Songs (1979)
• The Toynbee Convector (1988)
• Quicker Than the Eye (1996)
• Driving Blind (1997)
• One More for the Road (2002)
• The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007)
• Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing/Leviathan ' 99 (2007)
• Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007)
• Marionettes, Inc. (2009)
• We'll Always Have Paris (2009)

Poetry

• When Elephants Last in the Door yard Bloomed (1973)
• Where Robot Mice and Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns (1977)
• Twin Hieroglyphs That Swim the River Dust (1978)
• This Attic Where the Meadow Greens (1979)
• The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (1981)
• Death Has Lost Its Charm for Me (1987)
• I Live by the Invisible (2002)