About ray bradbury biography dvd

Pros: * Interviews with Ray Bradbury himself with anecdotes about his life and becoming a writer * Footage of his California home which has sadly been taken.

This definitive biography, filmed with personal anecdotes, interview with friends and associates, footage at home, at rehearsals of his plays.

Ray Bradbury is an American author known for his highly imaginative short stories and novels that blend a poetic style, nostalgia for childhood.

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Ray Bradbury: The day I read to a legend

Matt Novak

Features correspondent

Our columnist Matt Novak was one of the last people to interview the science fiction author. He recounts his chat with the writer who inspired him.

The heavy front door closed behind me, blotting out the revealing rays of the midday sun.

I cursed in my head. inom should have caught a cab here, I thought. It was only a mile between my apartment and the house, so I had decided to walk. But April in LA can be hot. Sweat was running down my back and my palms were wet. I held them by my side awkwardly. Maybe the cool air would wisp some of the moisture away before I offered my hand.

I stepped forward. Right foot out. Left foot. Right igen. Don’t count the steps.

I could see the room now, at the end of a long hall. Books weighed heavy on shelves all around. The familiar smell of book dust – the “finest pollen in the world”, as he had once described it – hung heavy and familiar.

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Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven an automobile.

He was born Ray Douglas Bradbury on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third son in the family. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a telephone lineman and technician. His mother, Esther Marie Bradbury (nee Moberg), was a Swedish immigrant. His grandfather and great-grandfather were newspaper publishers. In 1934, his family settled in Los Angeles, California. There, young Bradbury often roller-skated through Hollywood, trying to prick celebrities. He attended Los Angeles High School, where he was involved in the drama club and planned to become an actor. He graduated from high school in 1938 and had no more formal education. Instead, he learned from reading works o

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Fahrenheit 451 by Truffaut, François, film director, screenwriter
Call Number: Audio Visual PN1997 .F26 2003
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.