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About the Author Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1922 He is the author of many classic books and has a wide varity of genre of books including American mainstream, fantasy horror, science fiction and is a mystery writer. His most famous writings were Fahrenheit 451, and dystopian. Some of his writings were made into movies. Ray was a big reader as a child and was very intrested in writing. A lot of Ray's time was spent in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, Illinois. He was born there also. Later in his life his parents moved to Las Angeles California. Some of his writings had been influnced by T.V show like Flash Gordon in his science fiction novels. Ray Bradbury recieved lots of writing achievments the past few years. He even recieved one from president Bush in 2004. And in 2007 he recieved the French Commandeur Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal. He is still alive but is very sick.  []