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Ray Bradbury

1920 - 2012

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Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ray Bradbury is the 232nd most popular writer (down from 206th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from United States (down from 177th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Writer.

Ray Bradbury is most famous for writing Fahrenheit 451, which is a dystopian novel about a future society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.

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Among writers, Ray Bradbury ranks 232 out of 7,302. Before him are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Tristan Tzara, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John the Evangelist, Pliny the Younger, and Nelly Sachs. After him are Pedro Calderón de la Barca, J. D. Salinger, Paul Heyse, Shota Rustaveli, William Blake, and Truman Capote.

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Among people born in 1920, Ray Bradbury ranks 10. Before him are Yul Brynner, Charles Bukowski, Rosalind Franklin, Toshiro Mifune, Farouk of Egypt, and Juan Antonio Samaranch. After him are George Shultz, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Pran, Paul Celan, Mario Puzo, and Owen Chamberlain. Among people deceased in 2012, Ray Bradbury ranks 6. Before him are Neil Armstrong, Wisława Szymborska, Oscar Niemeyer, Whitney Houston, and Norodom Sihanouk. After him are F. Sherwood Rowland, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., I. K. Gujral, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Joseph Murray, and Yitzhak Shamir.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Bradbury ranks 226 out of 20,380. Before him are Tom Cruise (1962), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Cecil B. DeMille (1881), Grover Cleveland (1837), and Milton Friedman (1912). After him are Humphrey Bogart (1899), George Lucas (1944), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), J. D. Salinger (1919), Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), and Emily Greene Balch (1867).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ray Bradbury ranks 23. Before him are Henry David Thoreau (1817), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), William Faulkner (1897), John Steinbeck (1902), David Woodard (1964), and Pearl S. Buck (1892). After him are J. D. Salinger (1919), Truman Capote (1924), Joseph Heller (1923), Dale Carnegie (1888), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), and Walt Whitman (1819).

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