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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. |
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Ray BradburyAmerican novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter, Ray Bradbury, was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. His formal education ended with high school, but he became, as he calls it, a "student of life," selling newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed many short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them in 1947. His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950. Many consider Fahrenheit 451 to be Bradbury's masterpiece.
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| 1953 | Fahrenheit 451 |
| 1957 | Dandelion Wine |
| 1962 | Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| 2002 | Let's All Kill Constance |
Short Story Collections
| 1947 | Dark Carnival (abridged as The Small Assassin) |
| 1950 | The Martian Chronicles (retitled The Silver Locusts) |
| 1951 | The Illustrated Man |
| 1953 | The Golden Apples of the Sun |
| 1955 | The October Country |
| 1959 | A Medicine for Melancholy (revised as The Day It Rained Forever) |
| 1962 | R Is for Rocket |
| 1964 | The Machineries of Joy |
| 1965 | The Vintage Bradbury |
| 1966 | S Is for Space |
| 1969 | I Sing the Body Electric! |
| 1976 | Long After Midnight |
| 1979 | To Sing Strange Songs |
| 1980 | The Stories of Ray Bradbury |
| 1983 | Dinosaur Tales |
| 1988 | The Toynbee Convector |
| 2002 | One More for the Road |
Selected Plays & Other Works
| 1975 | Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow |
| 1982 | The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury |
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“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a
culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” —Ray Bradbury |
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