Ray Bradbury :: History

electron beam Bradbury Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920. He was the troika son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury (a telephone lineman for Waukegan Bureau of Power & Light Wolfe 62, http//www.brookingsbook.com/bradbury/biography.htm) and Esther Marie Bradbury (a Swedish immigrant Snodgrass 73). Ray lived in Waukegan, Illinois for six years until his family left to Tucson, Arizona in 1926. (http//www.brookingsbook.com/bradbury/biography.htm. When Ray Bradbury was eleven, he would be writing stories on hardlycher. (http//www.brookingsbook.com/bradbury/biography.htm) Ray was precise much into science fiction, horror movies, books, comic books, and magic acts. (Snodgrass 73) At eld 12, Ray read a newspaper headline reading creative activity Would End Tomorrow. (Tucson 1932) Young Ray was all excited almost this event so he and his brother packed a lunched and camped retard on a ridge to see the end. They waited for some time and vigour happened. Disappointed, he and his brot her left the ridge and went home. From that point on, Ray vowed to carve up from religion. Why? Because he doesnt like a god who likes to see his slew run in pseudo-terror. (Vollmer) In 1932, - after his father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was laid off turn tail because of the depression - his family moved to Los Angeles, California. (http//www.brookingsbook.com/bradbury/biography.htm) In 1935, at the age of fifteen, Ray would retain writing stories. Every once in a while he would send them to national magazines for print. (Wolfe 63) None of his form, at this time, was printed. Even though his work was never published, that didnt dispair him from his love of science fiction. With that, he joined the Los Angeles Science-Fiction Society. (Snodgrass 73) Later in the same year, Ray printed out his own magazine called Futura Fantasia. Futura Fantasia only consisted of Ray Bradburys work. The magazine lasted for only quartet issues. (Snodgrass 73) In 1938, Ray Bradbury finished nob le School at Los Angeles High School in Los Angeles, California. (McNelly 918) Nearly four years of trying to have one of this stories being published, Ray has his clenched fist printing with Imagination Magazine and the story called Hollerbochens Dilemma. (http//www.brookingsbook.com/bradbury/biography.htm) This was a big break for Ray. He had never had a piece of work of his being printed. somewhat of Rays influences have been L. Frank Baums magic land of Oz, the never-never Africa of Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes, and Barsoom, Burroughs impossible, amative Mars. (McNelly 918) But with even these writers, his biggest influence was not of a writer, but of a magician act of a passing circus.