The stand-out was his Pulitzer Prize in 2007.Īugust 22, 1920, Waukegan, Illinois, United States Henry Memorial Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, Award PEN centre USA West Lifetime Achievement. Ray Bradbury’s work has been inducted into collections of four Best American Short Story. His short stories appeared in over a thousand of anthologies of recommended reading in schools. Some of them later became larger works, others belong to specific cycles. According to Bradbury himself, he wrote over 400 stories throughout his life. Evil and violence in his work are unrealistic, and it’s best to ignore them without paying attention to them. In his works, Bradbury laughs from people without imagination.
Bradbury’s emotions, atmosphere, and feeling are more important than action. Thoughts are thoroughly built, but they are not the main part of his works. His works do not have comprehensive descriptions of technological details, but much attention is paid to the place of action, the appearance of heroes, names, dates and figures. The writer combines fantasy with detection and melodrama. Bradbury’s works are usually short stories, and their centre is not action, but dialogue, monologue, reflection. Other works of the writer include “The October Country” (1955), “Something Wicked This Way Comes” (1962), “I Sing the Body Electric!” (1969), among many others. His reputation as a writer was established with the publication of “The Martian Chronicles” (1950), then “Fahrenheit 451” (1953) was released, which many considered Bradbury’s masterpiece. He was first published in the late ‘30s – his eyesight was so poor he was rejected for military servicm so wrote instead, notably for “Fanzines” and “Script” during the ‘40s. From an early age, Ray had always been an avid reader, writer, and cartoonist for his own amusement.