Ray Bradbury – one of the greatest science-fiction writer.

This presentation has the following aims:

• Report to you some basic information about Ray Bradbury.

• Familiarize you with Bradbury’s works.• Induce you to read books written by Ray

Bradbury.

Short biography.Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920. He was the third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. They gave him the middle name "Douglas," after the actor, Douglas Fairbanks. Bradbury's early childhood in Waukegan was characterized by his loving extended family. These formative years provided the foundations for both the author and his stories. Between 1926 and 1933, the Bradbury family moved back and forth between Waukegan and Tucson, Arizona. In 1931, young Ray began writing his own stories on butcher paper.

Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books -- The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, and Something Wicked This Way Comes -- are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime.

The most prominent books:

Ray Bradbury’s hobbies. Almost nobody knew that Bradbury had passion for

drawing. He took his pictures to his best friend, who showed them after Bradbury’s death. Here they are:

«Halloween Tree-II» «Halloween Tree»

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Ray Bradbury's work has been included in several Best American Short Story collections. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others.

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In Bradbury’s family was a legend that their great-great-grandmother was a witch. So she was burnt in 1692 in the Great Salem’s process.

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The Martian Chronicles introduces Ray Bradbury’s childhood dreams and fear of Cold War.

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Ray Bradbury hadn’t got any proper education, because his family hadn’t disposed enough money to pay for him .

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Ray Bradbury wrote several screen plays for Alfred Hitchcock.

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Recently in America was established literary award by name of Ray Bradbury.

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Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 at the UCLA library, on typewriters that rented for 10 cents a half hour. He said he carried a sack full of dimes to the library and completed the book in nine days, at a cost of $9.80.

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Bradbury's literary style was honed in pulp magazines and influenced by Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, and he became the rare science fiction writer treated seriously by the literary world.

Ray Bradbury’s quotations:

• "I have been inspired by libraries and the magic they contain and the people that they represent."

• "I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them -- one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."

Ray Bradbury’s quotations:

“The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13”.

"If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell“.

Conclusion…

Ray Bradbury died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles at the age of 91.

But he still alive in readers heart…..

Picture painted by Ray Bradbury.