Ray Bradbury August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012
During his life, Bradbury has created more than eight different literary works, including several novels and short stories, hundreds of short stories, dozens of plays, a number of articles, notes and poems
Because of the shortness of the family of the money for higher education was not, and Bradbury was not able to go to college. But that's not really stop him in his life, as the writer mentioned in his article, "How I finished college instead of the library, or thoughts of a teenager who traveled to the moon in 1932"
World fame after the publication of Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451" in 1953. The novel was first published in the magazine Playboy. In the novel Brebderi showed a totalitarian society in which all books to be burned. In 1967, director Francois Truffaut filmed novel, releasing a full-length film "Fahrenheit 451"
In the same interview, Bradbury was asked about why not many of his predictions have come true - in particular, the settlements outpost on Mars to the beginning of the third millennium. The writer replied rather abruptly: "Because people - idiots. " After Bradbury cited the example of some modern things that he considers useless and foolish: the costumes for dogs office manager of advertising and "stuff like iphone. " The writer said that if people were more developed science, mastered space, it is difficult to predict what would be our world now. But modern society, according to Bradbury, "wants to engage in consumption - drinking beer and watching soap operas"
Bradbury wrote eleven novels, the most popular of which were early works, "The Martian Chronicles" (1950), "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) and "Dandelion Wine" (1957). Also, the writer has created a play 21 and 28 scenarios for movies. Some well-known stories: "There Will Come Soft rain" (1950), "Tomorrow End of the World" (1951), "A Sound of Thunder" (1952), "All Summer in a Day" (1954) and others.
