Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American fantasy, science fiction, and mystery writer known best for his 1950 short story collection The Martian Chronicles and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

Trivia

• One well known irony is that Bradbury, despite writing about spaceships and interplanetary travel and having lived in Los Angeles for most of his life, has never driven a car. He attributes this to having seen a gruesome car accident when he was young.
• Bradbury never flew in an airplane until the age of 62. He did enjoy a ride in the Goodyear Blimp when he was 48.
• Bradbury has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Bradbury has criticised and denounced filmmaker Michael Moore for giving the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 its title based on his classic work, calling Moore a "horrible human being." Bradbury said Moore "stole my title and changed the numbers without ever asking me for permission," and that " has nothing to do with it. He copied my title; that is what happened. That has nothing to do with my political opinions." He also demanded an apology and for the film to be renamed. Bradbury himself has appropriated the titles of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) as the titles of his novel ' (1990) and story collection ' (1979), respectively.