- Full Name: Raymond Douglas Bradbury
- Birth: August 22nd, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois
- Death: June 5th, 2012, in Los Angeles, California
- Marriage: Marguerite "Maggie" McClure from 1947 to her death in 2003 (57 years)
- Children: Susan Nixon, Ramona Ostergren, Bettina Karapetian, and Alexandra Bradbury
- Ray completed high school at Los Angeles High School, but after that, he taught himself new writing strategies and such
- He has written almost 50 books, along with many poems, short stories, essays, plays, teleplays, screenplays, and operas
- The genres he writes are mainly sci-fi, horror, mystery, and fantasy
- Fahrenheit 451 was based off of The Fireman, which is based off of The Pedestrian
- He has received many awards for his books, stories, and plays
- His inspiration came from a magician he saw when he was 12, who said,"Live forever!" which gave Ray the idea to live forever through his writing
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