Ray Bradbury Dies
Word just breaking that author Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91. Bradbury was the author of such works as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes and a number of short stories (including I Sing The Body Electric, The Illustrated Man and others)
Bradbury was a very special part of my youth, I spent hours reading from his considerable list of works.
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Thanks Patrick for this post. Ray Bradbury was a very special part of my youth as well. What an incredible imagination and intellect! I will assume his adventure is continuing in a new phase..
It’s a shame that he’s gone but he achieved something that very few people do. From the time he was a young man he did what he loved. Writing was his calling and he made a living at it while providing some of the best work in the latter half of the 20th century. I got to see him at a convention in St. Louis and was sorry it was the first and only time.
They had a spot on NPR with some quotes from a biography, I guess. He used to love to scare himself by imagining terrors on the staircase; falling back and moaning while his parents rolled their eyes and shook their head. When he discovered he could use the typewriter at the local library for 30 cents an hour, his writing career was launched.
F451 is a classic and needs to be read now more than ever.
“F451 is a classic and needs to be read now more than ever.”
Amen brother.