1. Ray Bradbury – one of the greatest
science-fiction writer.
2. This presentation has the following
aims:
• Report to you some basic information about
Ray Bradbury.
• Familiarize you with Bradbury’s works.
• Induce you to read books written by Ray
Bradbury.
3. Short biography.
Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan,
Illinois, on August 22, 1920.
He was the third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury
and Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. They gave him
the middle name "Douglas," after the actor,
Douglas Fairbanks.
Bradbury's early childhood in Waukegan was
characterized by his loving extended family. These
formative years provided the foundations for both
the author and his stories.
Between 1926 and 1933, the Bradbury family
moved back and forth between Waukegan and
Tucson, Arizona. In 1931, young Ray began writing
his own stories on butcher paper.
4. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-
known and most beloved books -- The Martian
Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, and
Something Wicked This Way Comes -- are
masterworks that readers carry with them over a
lifetime.
6. Ray Bradbury’s hobbies.
Almost nobody knew that Bradbury had passion for
drawing. He took his pictures to his best friend, who showed
them after Bradbury’s death. Here they are:
«Halloween Tree-II» «Halloween Tree»
7. Facts that you didn’t know before.
Ray Bradbury's work has been
included in several Best
American Short Story
collections. He has been
awarded the O. Henry
Memorial Award, the Benjamin
Franklin Award, the World
Fantasy Award for Lifetime
Achievement, the Grand Master
Award from the Science Fiction
Writers of America, and the PEN
Center USA West Lifetime
Achievement Award, among
others.
8. Facts that you didn’t know before.
In Bradbury’s family was a
legend that their great-
great-grandmother was a
witch. So she was burnt in
1692 in the Great Salem’s
process.
9. Facts that you didn’t know before.
The Martian Chronicles
introduces Ray Bradbury’s
childhood dreams and fear
of Cold War.
10. Facts that you didn’t know before.
Ray Bradbury hadn’t got
any proper education,
because his family hadn’t
disposed enough money
to pay for him .
11. Facts that you didn’t know before.
Ray Bradbury wrote
several screen plays
for Alfred Hitchcock.
12. Facts that you didn’t know before.
Recently in America was
established literary
award by name of Ray
Bradbury.
13. Facts that you didn’t know before.
Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit
451 at the UCLA library, on
typewriters that rented for 10
cents a half hour. He said he
carried a sack full of dimes to
the library and completed the
book in nine days, at a cost of
$9.80.
14. Facts that you didn’t know before.
Bradbury's literary style was
honed in pulp magazines and
influenced by Ernest
Hemingway and Thomas
Wolfe, and he became the rare
science fiction writer treated
seriously by the literary world.
15. Ray Bradbury’s quotations:
• "I have been inspired by libraries and the
magic they contain and the people that they
represent."
• "I hate all politics. I don't like either political
party. One should not belong to them -- one
should be an individual, standing in the
middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops
thinking."
16. Ray Bradbury’s quotations:
“The great thing about my life is that
everything I've done is a result of what I was
when I was 12 or 13”.
"If someone tells you to do something for
money, tell them to go to hell“.
17. Conclusion…
Ray Bradbury died Wednesday morning in Los
Angeles at the age of 91.
But he still alive in readers heart…..
Picture painted by Ray Bradbury.
