Having written over 500 short stories, poems, essays, and novels, Ray Bradbury is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the century. Writing with topics ranging from science fiction to real life symbolism, he has earned the respect of many readers in the authors' community. He is one of the few authors who has written since a young age and is still writing. Ray Bradbury has faced many challenges and achieved many feats to become the internationally acclaimed author that he is today.

Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 to Leonard Spaulding and Esther (Moberg) Bradbury in their Waukegan, Illinois home (Contemporary Authors 1). He was known to have started writing stories in his free time with whatever he could find. Teenreads.com says that at the age of11, he was writing stories on his father's butcher paper (2). It also says that "he credits the development of...