Ray Douglas Bradbury became interested in books and writing at the age of seven and aware of the "fabulous world of future and the world of fantasy," through the arrival of Buck Rogers in comic strips and the magazine Amazing Stories. Thus begun his journey into a life of fantastic and futuristic types of literature that would be synonymous with his name (Kunitz, 1955, p. 111).Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920. His parents, Esther and Leonard Bradbury sent him to public school in Waukegan until the Bradbury family moved to California in 1934. Bradbury then entered school at Los Angeles High. The year before he graduated, he joined the Los Angeles Science-Fantasy Society. Bradbury used this organization to begin writing science fiction in his own magazine called Futuria Fantasia (Candee, 1954).Bradbury graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1938. That was the end of his formal education, but he continued to keep occupied. Bradbury did this by visiting the library at night and writing in the day. He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners for four whole years after graduation. Bradbury started his career with the publishing of short stories. Bradbury's first paid publication was a relative success and caused him to take writing more seriously. He even started to develop his own writing style. By 1943, Bradbury gave up selling newspapers and undertook writing full-time. Many writings were added to periodicals (Johnson & Jepson, ‘98, Internet).In 1945 one of his short stories was selected for Best American Short Stories. In 1947 Bradbury married Marguerite McClure, and that same year he compiled much of his best material and published them as his first short story collection called Dark Carnival. This was the beginning of his career as a renowned and acclaimed author of science fiction (Johnson & Jepson, 1998, Internet). Bradbury was enormously popular throughout the 50’s and 60&...
