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Ray Bradbury     Ray Bradbury has been considered one of Americas greatestscience-fiction writers. His work often satires human nature and showshis commentators the flaws found deep within the individual. Not all isBradbury a novelist, but he is also a , unforesightful-story writer, essayist,playwright, screenwriter, and poet      Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920, thethird son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie MobergBradbury. In 1926 Ray Bradburys family moved from Waukegan, Illinoisto Tucson, Arizona, only to return to Waukegan again in May 1927. By1931 (the dawn of the majuscule Depression) he began writing his takestories on butcher paper. In 1932, after his father was laid off his job asa name lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson andagain returned to Waukegan the following stratum. In 1934 the Bradburyfamily moved to Los Angeles, California.      Bradbury have from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. Hisformal education stop there, but he furthered it by himself. He went tothe library by night and by day at he worked at his typewriter. He sellnewspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942.Bradburys first story publication was "Hollerbochens Dilemma," printedin 1938 in Imagination, an amateur fan magazine. In 1939, Bradburypublished four issues of Futuria Fantasia, his own fan magazine,contributing much of the published material himself. Bradburys first gainful publication was "Pendulum" in 1941 to Super Science Stories. In1942 Bradbury wrote "The Lake," a short story later added to a collectionof short stories called The October Country. This was the story in whichBradbury discovered his distinctive writing style. By 1943 he had givenup his job selling newspapers and began writing full-time, contributingnumerous short stories to periodicals. In 1945 his short story "The BigBlack and White Game&quo t was selected for exceed American Short Stories. In1947 Bradbury married Marguerite McClure, and that same year hegathered much of his best material and published them as , his firstshort story collection.      His reputation as a lead story writer of science fiction was establishedwith the publication of in 1950 (published in England under the titleThe Silver Locusts), which describes the first attempts of Earth people to get hold of and colonize Mars, the constant thwarfareting of their efforts by thegentle, telepathic Martians, the eventual colonization, and last theeffect on the Martian settlers of a massive nuclear war on Earth. Asmuch a work of social comment as of science fiction, The MartianChronicles reflects some of the prevailing anxieties of America in the early