The American novelist Ray Bradbury has more to his credit than just novels. He was also a poet, playwright, short story writer and essayist. Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury was a lineman for power and phone utilities and his mother, Ester Moberg Bradbury was a Swedish immigrant. Ray led a rather peaceful childhood, which he later mentioned in a number of semi-autobiographical novels. During his younger years, Ray was a huge admirer of magicians and fantasy fiction, some of his favorite writers being Jules Verne, Frank Baum and Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1938, Bradbury graduated from Los Angeles high school; this marked the end of his formal education. But in fact, Ray Bradbury
