Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1922. He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1938 but decided to not attend college. In order to make a living, he decided to sell newspapers at the corner of South Norton Avenue and Olympic. He educated himself at the library and, having been influenced by science fiction heroes like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Bradbury began to publish science fiction stories in 1938. His first professional sale was to the pulp magazine Super Science Stories in 1941, and he became a full-time writer by the end of 1942. His first book, the collection Dark Carnival, was published in 1947. He married Marguerite McClure in 1947, and they had four daughters.

Works:

Novels
The Martian Chronicles (1950)
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Dandelion Wine (1957)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
The Halloween Tree (1972)
Death Is a Lonely Business (1985)
A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990)
Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)
From the Dust Returned (2001)
Let's All Kill Constance (2003)
It Came from Outer Space (2003)

Short Story Collections
Dark Carnival (1947)
The Illustrated Man (1951)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
The October Country (1955)
A Medicine for Melancholy (1959)
R is for Rocket (1962)
The Machineries of Joy (1964)
The Vintage Bradbury (1965)
S is for Space (1966)
I Sing The Body Electric! (1969)
Long After Midnight (1976)
The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980)
A Memory of Murder (1984)
The Toynbee Convector (1988)
Quicker Than The Eye (1996)
Driving Blind (1998)
One More for the Road (2002)
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003)
The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004)
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005)

Screenplays and Teleplays
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Moby Dick (1956)
The Bullet Trick / The Marked Bullet (1956)
Shopping For Death (1956)
Design For Loving (1958)
Special Delivery (1959)
The Gift (1959)
The Tunnel to Yesterday (1959)
King of Kings (uncredited) (1961)
The Faith Of Aaron Menefee (1962)
I Sing the Body Electric (1962)
The Jail (1962)
Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1962)
The Life Work of Juan Diaz (1964)
The Picasso Summer (1969)
The Groon (1971)
Gnomes (1979)
The Electric Grandmother (1982)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Quest (1983)
The Ray Bradbury Theatre (1985-1992)
The Elevator (1986)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1992)
The Halloween Tree (1993)
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)

Radio
The Meadow (1947)
Riabouchinska (1947)
Summer Night (1948)
The Screaming Woman (1948)
Leviathan '99 (1968)

Poetry
When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed (1975)
Where Robot Mice and Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns (1977)
The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (1981)
They Have Not Seen the Stars: The Collected Poetry of Ray Bradbury (2002)

Plays
The Meadow (1948)
The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics (1963)
The Day It Rained Forever (1966)
The Pedestrian (1966)
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972)
Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975)
Fahrenheit 451 (1986)
The Martian Chronicles (1986)
Dandelion Wine (1988)
Falling Upward (1988)
Bradbury on Stage: A Chrestomathy of His Plays (1988)

Children
Switch on the Night (1955)
With Cat for Comforter (1997)
Dogs Think That Every Day Is Christmas (1997)

Fable
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines (1998)

Non-fiction
Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)
Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures (1991)
Conversations With Ray Bradbury (2004)
Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars (2005)