The death of a stranger by fire in the first third becomes the destruction of Guy Montag own house in a second. For a book once pigeonholed as science fiction, this structural savvy is one more proof that Ray Bradbury started out writing for the pulps and wound up writing for the ages. (Fahrenheit 451)
About the author Ray Bradbury full name was Ray Douglas Bradbury, was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois into a family that once included a seventeenth-century Salem woman tried for witchcraft. The Bardbury drove across the country to Los Angeles in 1934, with young Ray piling out their jalopy at every stop to plunder the local library search for L. Frank Baum Oz books. In 1936, Ray Bradbury experience a rite of passage familliar to most science fiction readers, at a bookstore in Hollywood he