He wanted to live to a hundred - joked that he would give him a premium for it. After himself, the author left over 800 works: novels, stories, stories - his "Martian chronicles", "And thunder", "Wine from dandelions", "Summer on one day" and other works have long become a classic fiction, breaking on quotes.
On August 22, 2020, Ray Bradbury "took" that the world would be 100 years old, but did not reach. On entertaining facts from the creative biography and the personal life of the writer - in the material 24cmi.
1. Affordable entertainment
As a child, Ray Bradbury lived with his family in Los Angeles, not far from the main cinema of the studios MGM and FOX. The yurt boy was adapted to penetrate the closed shows, which took place here weekly. Another entertainment for him was the "Star Hunt" - the future writer on the rollers drove around the city in the hope of seeing as many celebrities as possible and collect autographs from all of them.2. "Learn to learn!"
Ray Bradbury called himself a man who received education is not in colleges, but in libraries. It is curious that such a statement is absolutely true: the famous science fiction writer finished only high school - the parents of the young man did not exist. So he instead of universities and colleges for 10 years three times a week went to the library as on classes.
3. Brought!
The author, in whose books there is enough "strong" words, in life preferred not to use abnormative vocabulary. The only time the writer still swore from the soul, happened during a meeting with students of one college, who, not wanting to listen to Bradbury's objections, tried to explain the latter, about which in reality his work "451 degrees Fahrenheit".4. On the last path
Bradbury dreamed of going to Mars - once even joked that he wanted that after the death of his remains had found the eternal peace on the red planet. Moreover, the writer-joker suggested itself to the bank from under the cabbage soup.
5. The main thing - to believe
Among the main reasons why the author was interested in fantastic, mysterious and otherworldly, Ray Bradbury himself called a family legend. Natives were told that among the great-grandmothers of the future writer, a witch was winning, which was burned during the famous Salem hunt, which happened in 1692-1693. There were no documentary evidence of the history in the arms of the family, but Ray unconditionally believed in his senior legend behaved.Also in recent years, Bradbury was convinced that creativity prolongs his life - every written story retracts the arrival of death. So every morning the science started from work on another work.
6. No new trends faith
Despite the genres in which he had a chance to work, the author did not want to adopt modern innovations - they, according to the writer himself, had practically panic. So Bradbury worked before the latter on the printed machine, experiencing distrust towards electronic books and computers.
7. The only one
All his life, Ray Bradbury lived with the only wife, which in 1947 was Margaret Mascin. The chosen one helped the future celebrity to survive a difficult period - when the works of her husband were not yet in demand, the spouse for several years worked hard to allow her beloved to be written. Ray and Maggie had four children - Daughters Susan, Ramon, Bettin and Alexander.