Raybradbury biography

All All. Sign In. Ray Douglas Bradbury. Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven an automobile. He was the third son in the family.

His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a telephone lineman and technician.

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His grandfather and great-grandfather were newspaper publishers. In , his family settled in Los Angeles, California. There, young Bradbury often roller-skated through Hollywood, trying to spot celebrities. He attended Los Angeles High School, where he was involved in the drama club and planned to become an actor. He graduated from high school in and had no more formal education.

Instead, he learned from reading works of such writers as Lev Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky , among others.

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From , he was selling newspapers on the streets of Los Angeles, spending days in the local library and nights at the typewriter. At that time, he published his stories in fanzines. In , he became a paid writer when the pulp magazine Science Stories published his short story, titled "Pendulum", and he was a full-time writer by the end of His first book - "Dark Carnival" - was a collection of stories published in