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Ray Bradbury

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The Illustrated Man Summary

The Illustrated Manappears in Prologue: The Illustrated Man and Epilogue

The Illustrated Man is a carnival worker who noticed a sign outside an old lady's house offering exquisite tattoos. She worked on him for a whole night, covering his body with beautiful pictures. However, at night, the pictures come to life and tell stories about the future. The Illustrated Man provides a framework for the stories that follow, melding them all into one tale...

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Ray Bradbury Biographies (4)

Ray Bradbury

2,195 words, approx. 8 pages

Ray Bradbury (born 1920) was among the first authors to combine the concepts of science fiction with a sophisticated prose style. Often described as economical yet poetic, Bradbury's fiction conveys a... Read more

Ray Bradbury

10,856 words, approx. 37 pages

Biography EssayAlthough Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and although his stories and themes have permeated all areas of American culture as have those of no... Read more

Ray (Douglas) Bradbury

3,235 words, approx. 11 pages

Ray Bradbury is an interesting writer who has unjustly suffered from critical neglect. In a sense he has been the victim of a genre. To consider his work as "science fiction" or "fantasy"--no matter h... Read more

Ray (Douglas) Bradbury

11,679 words, approx. 39 pages

[This entry was updated by Gary K. Wolfe (Roosevelt University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 16-33.]Although Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the ... Read more

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The Illustrated Man

685 words, approx. 3 pages

In The Illustrated Man, the author Ray Bradbury wrote with many different themes including imagination, science and technology, and faith and religion. In many of the stories the plot shows Br... Read more

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