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| Ray Douglas Bradbury born August 22, , in Waukegan, Illinois, blue blood the gentry third child of Esther Moberg Bradbury and Leonard Bradbury. Fellow boys were born four period earlier, but one, Samuel, boring at age two. Leonard Jr. (known as “Skip”) survived. |
| In February (age three), vacuous by mother to see Intensity Chaney in The Hunchback make a fuss over Notre Dame. Learns about receiver from his paternal grand- father. |
| Given 1st book be advisable for fairy tales, Once Upon tidy Time, by his aunt River Brad- bury for Christmas. Parents help him learn to problem from the newspaper comics. Gaffer shows him pictures of integrity and world’s fairs. |
| Sees Lon Chaney’s Phantom of interpretation Opera with his mother ray again with his brother, Flit. Grandfather Bradbury dies, and Jeer at Neva starts reading Ray depiction Oz books by L. Manage Baum. Begins 1st grade deliver Waukegan, but father moves kinfolk to Roswell, New Mexico, consequently to Tucson, Arizona, looking courier work. |
| Ray’s sister, Elizabeth Jane Bradbury, is born birdcage Tucson. Family moves back call on Waukegan in May. A growing cousin almost drowns in Store Michigan; he uses this affair much later in “The Lake.” |
| Ray’s baby sister, Elizabeth, dies of pneumonia in Feb. Sick in bed with whooping cough, Ray misses three months of school during the revolve term. Aunt Neva reads him Edgar Allan Poe’s works. Discovers Amazing Stories Quarterly, one style the earliest science fiction pulps. Is terrified of crossing neighbourhood ravine and uses this terror later in “The Night” increase in intensity “The Whole Town’s Sleeping,” fictitious later novelized within Dandelion Wine. |
| Discovers the romances insensible Edgar Rice Burroughs and begins to read Burroughs’s John Transmitter of Mars series. |
| Given a book on magic select his eleventh birthday; attends resident performances by Blackstone the Mage several times between and Carries out an action his own magic act footing various service clubs and lodges and on Christmas Eve close the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall. |
| Begins to subject Jules Verne. Father loses top job with the telephone fellowship and moves family back come upon Tucson. Receives toy dial typewriter for Christmas. Attempts a outcome to a John Carter clench Mars novel. Reads Sunday comics to kids on a adjoining radio station in Tucson. |
| Father moves family back lowly Waukegan in the spring. Drag reads borrowed copies of Rarity Stories and Amazing Stories. Attends the Century of Progress Disquisition (the Chicago World’s Fair) stray summer with his parents last again with his aunt Neva; he is fascinated by “The City of the Future” paramount the dinosaurs of the “Sinclair Prehistoric Exhibit.” |
| Favorite scribe Inar Moberg moves to Calif.. Years later Ray would draw up a story in which blooper gave his uncle wings scold makes him a vampire. Monarch father, again out of pierce, drives family to Los Angeles. Ray attends Berendo Junior High. |
| In September, Ray enters Los Angeles High School. |
| Joins drama club and determines to be an actor. Starts—but never finishes—his 1st novel. Method “In Memory of Will Rogers” printed in Waukegan News-Sun. Join teachers, Jennet Johnson and Fall guy Longley Housh, encourage his able development. He would later accept their influence in his constancy to Something Wicked is Not giving anything away Comes (). |
| Buys Ordinal real typewriter for $ Tier early October, joins the Los Angeles Science Fiction League (LASFL). |
| In January, his Ordinal amateur story, “Hollerbochen’s Dilemma,” level-headed printed in the LASFL chapter’s fan magazine (fanzine), Imagination! Meaning “Truck Driver A er Midnight” appears in citywide anthology Dayspring Song. Contributes reviews and scholium to Blue and White Quotidian, the Los Angeles High Academy student newspaper. Graduates in June; starts selling newspapers in Sep from a street corner newsstand. |
| Launches his own fanzine, Futuria Fantasia, which will relatives for four issues. Attends justness 1st World Science Fiction Assembly in New York. Takes Hannes Bok’s art portfolio with him and wins Bok his Ordinal commission from Weird Tales. Explains Hemingway, Steinbeck, Wolfe, and niche American novelists. |
| Sees Disney’s Fantasia multiple times. Moves confront family to downtown Los Angeles. Receives advice from Robert Put in order. Heinlein. Publishes “It’s Not illustriousness Heat, It’s the Hu—” direct the November 2 issue unscrew the nonpaying but professional Cursive writing magazine; this is his Ordinal professional story publication. Active serve amateur productions of Laraine Day’s Wilshire Players Guild. |
| First professional story sale, “The Pendulum,” written with Henry Hasse, appears in the November issue hold sway over Super Science Stories. His Ordinal agent, Julius Schwartz, negotiates that sale and two more previously the end of the year. |
| Spends many Sundays decay Muscle Beach with Leigh Brackett, critiquing and revising stories. Publishes “The Candle” in Weird Tales. Moves with family to Venezia Beach. Quits selling newspapers. |
| Poor vision keeps him accomplish of military service. Three higher ranking stories appear: “The Wind” alight “The Crowd” in Weird Tales and “King of the Colorise Spaces” in Famous Fantastic Mysteries. |
| Places detective stories name Detective Tales, New Detective, build up Dime Mystery. Writes second section of Leigh Brackett’s novella “Lorelei of the Red Mist” from way back she coauthors screenplay of Depiction Big Sleep for director Player Hawks. Undertakes extensive readings trap contemporary American and British tale writers. |
| First anthology selling, “The Lake,” appears in Who Knocks. Sells “The Big Begrimed and White Game” to Dweller Mercury. Three major market serial sales enable him to in-group in Mexico with close boon companion Grant Beach. His trip cheese-paring in the classic story “The Next in Line.” |
| Meets future wife Marguerite “Maggie” McClure at Fowler’s Book Shop, disc she clerks. 1st Martian Registers story, “The Million year Picnic,” appears in Planet Stories. “The Big Black and White Game” selected for Best American Subsequently Stories Meets future agent Accomplice Congdon. |
| Bradbury’s radio cavort “The Meadow” broadcast on Nature Security Work-shop and selected good spirits Best One-Act Plays – Jurisdiction as-yet-unpublished story “Riabouchinska” adapted folk tale broadcast on the CBS air dramatic series Suspense. Marries Maggie McClure. His story “Homecoming” research paper selected for O. Henry Award: Prize Stories First story garnering, Dark Carnival, published. Don Congdon becomes his agent. |
| Wins third place in O. Orator Award: Prize Stories with “Power House.” “I See you Never” in Best American Short Traditional Dark Carnival reprinted (abridged) envelop Great Britain. |
| Trip commerce New York. Meets Walter Author at Doubleday. They conceive blue blood the gentry idea for The Martian Registers. Applies (unsuccessfully) for Guggenheim rights with a novel concept, Decency Masks. First daughter Susan foaled. Named Best Author of Body of knowledge Fiction by the National Imagination Fan Federation. |
| The Martian Chronicles published in May. These days publishing regularly in major put up for sale magazines. Receives significant review use up Christopher Isherwood in Tomorrow keep watch on The Martian Chronicles. |
| “The Fireman” published as a best-seller in February issue of Galaxy; he will later revise enjoin expand it into Fahrenheit Class Illustrated Man is published, realm second book from Doubleday. In the second place daughter, Ramona, born. Major question period for New York Times Paperback Review published in August. |
| First book on Ray Author, The Ray Bradbury Review, carve hurt by William F. Nolan. Company of honor at Westercon 5 in San Diego; becomes pilot of the newly formed Discipline art Fantasy Writers of America. “The Other Foot” published in Outrun American Short Stories Edits Abiding Stories for Today and Unborn for Bantam. The Illustrated Mortal is runner-up for the Supranational Fantasy Award. |
| In Walk The Golden Apples of prestige Sun published by Doubleday. Writes a critical piece on discipline citation for The Nation. Crapper Huston asks Bradbury to get along the Moby Dick screenplay back late August; they spend loftiness next eight months in Hibernia and London as Bradbury prepares the script. His 1st newfangled, Fahrenheit , is published stomach-turning Ballantine Books. “The Beast Take the stones out of 20, Fathoms” and an imaginative screen treatment, It Came Elude Outer Space, made into films. |
| Wins annual gold honor from Commonwealth Club of Calif. for Fahrenheit Wins Benjamin Scientist magazine award for best keep apart story, “Sun and Shadow.” Conquests National Institute of Arts advocate Letters literature award for Physicist Bradbury and his family reappear from Europe in June. |
| Pantheon publishes Switch on honourableness Night, his 1st children’s complete, in March. 1st textbook structure in The Informal Reader filch “There Will Come So Rains.” Third daughter, Bettina, born. Goodness October Country released in Oct from Ballantine Books. “Shopping lack Death” picked for Best Sleuthhound Stories of the Year. |
| Wins Boys Club of Earth Award for Switch on excellence Night. Edits the Bantam farrago The Circus of Dr. Asian and Other Improbable Stories. Writes “Happy Birthday A.D.,” an unproduced operetta, for Elsa Lanchester with the addition of Charles Laughton. John Huston’s manual labor of Moby Dick, filmed put on the back burner Bradbury’s screenplay, released as marvellous feature film by Warner Brothers. |
| In London for birth summer. Writes screenplay of “And the Rock Cried Out” confirm Carol Reed. September sees carry out of Dandelion Wine from Doubleday. His father dies at recoil sixty-six in October. |
| In April, receives a Society get ahead Midland Authors award for Herb Wine as runner-up to Jessamyn West’s To See the Dreams. Represented in Best American Take your clothes off Stories with “The Day Approve Rained Forever.” Fourth daughter, Alexandra, born. The Bradburys move ledge Thanksgiving Day to Cheviot Hills. |
| A Medicine for Blue released in February by Doubleday. The British edition published greet modified contents as The Existing It Rained Forever. |
| First professional stage play, The Meadow-land, produced at the Huntington Hartford eater in Hollywood. Life scoop published in October, “A Colossal Search for Weird Worlds.” |
| In January wins appellate cortege ruling against CBS television expulsion a Playhouse 90 plagiarism forfeit Fahrenheit Cofounds the Writer’s Lodge Film Society with Arthur Equestrian. Writes the voice-over narrative implication MGM’s King of Kings (uncredited). |
| Major teleplay, “The Jail,” appears on Alcoa Premier focal point February. His script for “The Jail” is nominated by distinction Writer’s Guild of America accommodate the Television and Radio Writers Award in the category chide Television Anthology Drama. In class fall, Life publishes his entity “Cry the Cosmos.” Simon & Schuster publishes Bradbury’s long-awaited account, Something Wicked is Way Be handys. R Is for Rocket, well-organized compilation of Bradbury stories muddle up young readers, published by Doubleday. |
| Receives Academy Award rendezvous for the animated short disc, Icarus Montgolfier Wright, adapted make the first move his story; George Clayton John- son and illustrator Joseph Mugnaini share the nomination. Film golds star Golden Eagle Award from honourableness Council on International Non-Theatrical Fairy-tale (CINE). In October, Dial publishes Bradbury’s dramatic adaptations of government own Irish stories as Excellence Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics. |
| His “American Journey” legend opens at the U.S. Tent of the World’s Fair interchangeable New York. Produces his intimate plays in Los Angeles hoot The World of Ray Author. Receives the Peter Pan Purse from the Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Simon & Schuster publishes Bradbury’s short story solicitation The Machineries of Joy. |
| Life publishes his fictional celebration to Hemingway in January. Sharptasting produces his play The Amazing Ice Cream Suit in Los Angeles. “The Other Foot” select for Best American Short Fairy-tale –The Vintage Bradbury released brush aside Vintage Books, Random House. Ballantine publishes The Autumn People, picture 1st of two mass-market paperbacks featuring the early s EC Comics graphic adaptations of Writer stories. Receives the 1st marketplace two Ann Radcliff Awards matter contributions to Gothic Literature cheat the Count Dracula Society, vanguard to the Academy of Skill Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Cinema. The World of Ray Author has a short New Dynasty run at the Orpheum Theatre. |
| François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit end up by Universal as a elder film. S Is for Leeway, a companion collection to Distinction Is for Rocket, published dampen Doubleday. Ballantine publishes Tomorrow Twelve o`clock, the second of two mass-market paperbacks featuring the early merciless EC Comics graphic adaptations interrupt Bradbury stories. Bradbury’s mother dies at age seventy-eight in Los Angeles in November. |
| Musical production of Dandelion Wine opens at Lincoln Center in Apr. Life publishes “An Impatient Character above Our Roofs.” |
| Wins Aviation Space Writers Association’s Parliamentarian Ball Memorial Award for “An Impatient Gulliver above Our Roofs.” Leviathan ’99 produced and development as a radio play unhelpful the BBC in London. Christened president of the Chamber Piece of music Society of California in June. August sees his final thesis for Life, “Any Friend short vacation Trains Is a Friend shambles Mine.” |
| The Illustrated Mortal distributed as a major lp by Warner Brothers / Cardinal Arts. I Sing the Target Electric! released by Knopf trim October. His Christus Apollo undivided at UCLA with Charlton Heston as narrator. |
| Works reorganization part of WED (Disney Imagineering think tank) on Robot Shop exhibits. “Mars Is Heaven!” (“The Third Expedition,” ) selected reconcile the 1st volume of Doubleday’s Science Fiction Hall of Title anthology. |
| Apollo 15 gang names a lunar impact detail Dandelion Crater in honor hold Bradbury. Participates in a swing round discussion, “Mars and the Life-force of Man,” at California Academy of Technology. “The Poems” () receives the Seiun Award paper best foreign short story fuming the Japanese Science Fiction Conference. Receives his second Ann Radcliff Award for contributions to Fascination Literature from the Count Character Society. |
| The Wonderful Assignment Cream Suit and Other Plays published by Bantam. Feature pelt Picasso Summer, based on fulfil story “In a Season infer Calm Weather,” released by Luscious Brothers / Seven Arts. “The Blue Bottle” (“Death Wish,” ) receives the Seiun Award muster best foreign short story put off the Japanese Science Fiction Company. The Halloween Tree, a account for young adults, published indifference Knopf. |
| First poetry unspoiled, When Elephants Last in depiction Dooryard Bloomed, re- leased inured to Knopf. “The Black Ferris” () receives the Seiun Award add to best foreign short story go on doing the Japanese Science Fiction Convention. |
| Receives Valentine Davies Continuance Award from the Writer’s Conservatory of America, West, for gifts to motion picture screenwriting. Papers Bradbury Reads Bradbury with loftiness Listening Library for high institute use. |
| Pillar of Flush and Other Plays published from end to end of Bantam in October. |
| Fahrenheit (as read by Bradbury) designated for Best Spoken Word Album by the National Academy jump at Recording Arts and Sciences. Survive After Midnight published by Knopf (his 1st collection in figure years). Receives 1st Life Exploit nomination (for ) from loftiness jurors of the World Pretence Awards. |
| Selected as honesty Life Achievement Award winner (for ) by jurors of significance World Fantasy Awards. Receives Calif. Association of Teachers of Unambiguously Writer of the year Honour. Knopf publishes second book unbutton verse, Where Robot Mice come first Robot Men Run Round knoll Robot Towns. |
| First post for the Gandalf Grand Genius of Fantasy Award (for ), an honor sponsored by leadership annual Hugo Awards competition. Abrams publishes The Mummies of Guanajuato, a book of photos set up around Bradbury’s classic story “The Next in Line.” |
| Second nomination for the Gandalf Dear Master of Fantasy Award (for ). Receives an honorary degree from Whittier College. Hosts position ABC hour-long special broadcast Vast Space: Beyond Apollo. |
| Selected as the Gandalf Grand Lord of Fantasy Award winner (for ) on his third designation. Receives Space Medicine Award make up for “Medicine for the Twenty- Ordinal Century” from NASA. Knopf releases the hundred-story collection The Mythos of Ray Bradbury in October. |
| Receives performance award let alone the Mental Health Association observe Los Angeles for his gifts. His third collection of rhyming, The Haunted Computer and justness Android Ape, published by Knopf. |
| Perfection Form releases a-ok series of his short legendary in booklet format for schools. |
| Dinosaur Tales published unresponsive to Bantam. Something Wicked is Alter Comes released by Disney. Bradbury’s screenplay receives the Saturn Trophy haul for Writing from the School of Science Fiction, Fantasy, perch Horror Films. |
| Receives “Key to the City” from Waukegan, Illinois. Novels of Ray Author published by Granada in Combined Britain. Dell released a parcel of Bradbury’s early detective make-believe as A Memory of Manslaughter. Fahrenheit receives Prometheus Award fail to appreciate best Hall of Fame Explain Fiction from the Libertarian Visionary Society; co-winner is George Orwell’s |
| In its Ordinal season, The Ray Bradbury consumer receives an ACE (Award come up with Cable Excellence); by its in reply season () the series would earn a total of straighten ACE nominations and net sextet wins, as well as deuce Emmy nominations. 1st mystery new-fangled, Death Is a Lonely Conglomerate, published by Knopf in Oct. Receives the Body of Preventable Award for lifetime achievement immigrant the writer’s group PEN USA. |
| Guest of honor squabble World Science Fiction Convention. Glowing Publishing releases a series imbursement Bradbury’s plays for theatrical use. |
| St. Martin’s publishes Bradbury’s story Fever Dream as copperplate children’s glow-in-the-dark edition. |
| Knopf releases his 1st story garnering in nine years, The Historian Convector. |
| Named a Costly Master by the Science Anecdote and Fantasy Writers of Land for his lifetime achievement name these fields. Joshua Odell Editions publishes Zen in the Separation of Writing in March. Character Toynbee Convector nominated for excellent Bram Stoker Award by significance Horror Writer’s Association. |
| Portion of the yeoman Creek flume near Bradbury’s childhood home imprisoned Waukegan, Illinois, named the Get worse Bradbury section of Powell Parkland. Receives the Turner Tomorrow Jackpot. Knopf published his second privacy novel, A Graveyard for Lunatics. |
| Ray Bradbury on Take advantage of, a compilation of his promulgated stage plays, re- leased surpass Donald I. Fine. Yestermorrow! (an essay collection) published by Book Odell Editions. |
| Green Weakness, White Whale, a novelization censure his Irish stories and monarch to experiences in Ireland script book the screenplay for Moby Cock under John Huston’s direction, promulgated by Knopf. Society for loftiness Study of Midwestern Literature generosity the Mark Twain Award say you will Bradbury for his distinguished assistance to Midwestern literature. The Branch of knowledge Fiction and Fantasy Writers understanding America established The Ray Writer Award for excellence in screenwriting. Spacewatch project astronomers at Bale Peak observatory name a lately discovered asteroid, Bradbury, in standing of the author. Television movie Ray Bradbury: An American Celeb airs, with narration by Faculty Award–winning actor and Bradbury partner Rod Steiger. |
| Bradbury’s feature-length animated teleplay of his unfamiliar, The Halloween Tree, is golden October 20, , on nobility Turner Broadcasting Channel; subsequently unconfined by Hanna-Barbera on video. Author shares a Cable ACE bestow for The Ray Bradbury feeder as Best Dramatic Series; that is the last of runny ACE nominations (and six wins) for the Bradbury series. |
| Wins an Emmy for realm animated screenplay adaptation of Blue blood the gentry Halloween Tree. |
| Named Los Angeles Citizen of the twelvemonth for his contributions to gen planning. |
| Receives honorary degree of Humane Letters from Calif. Lutheran University. Nominated for illustriousness Fi1st Fandom Hall of Renown Award, a Hugo ceremony have recognizing original fans from loftiness days of the 1st Nature Science Fiction Convention of County Books releases Quicker than rectitude Eye (a story collection) tight spot November. Los Angeles names a-ok room in its main writing-room for Ray Bradbury. |
| Driving Blind (story collection) released ton September by Avon. |
| His second children’s picture book, Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines, was published by Avon. Driving Stone-blind is nominated for a Earth Fantasy Award. |
| Bradbury receives the George Pal Memorial Jackpot from the Academy of Body of knowledge Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Big screen. The British edition of Dynamic Blind (published in ) chosen for a British Fantasy Give. Bradbury inducted (along with Parliamentarian Silverberg and posthumous inductees Great. Merritt and Jules Verne) pay for the Science Fiction Hall representative Fame. |
| Awarded the Country-wide Book Foundation Medal for Notable Contribution to American Letters make your mind up November In honor of that award, Morrow, now publisher promote to Avon Books, publishes A Travel to of Ray Bradbury. |
| The World Horror Convention names Writer a Grand Master. July sees publication of A Chapbook engage Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers (Cemetery Dance), a collection imbursement Bradbury’s speculative writings on greatness cosmos and faith. From righteousness Dust Returned, a novelized recounting cycle started decades earlier, accessible by Morrow. Ray Bradbury, Wreath Life and Work printed bid Book-of-the-Month Club in conjunction respect its rerelease of four important Bradbury classics. Mayor James Chemist of Los Angeles proclaims Backbone Bradbury Day for Friday, Dec |
| From the Debris Returned was nominated for nifty Bram Stoker Award for outstrip Horror novel; it is further nominated for a World Creativity Award. One More for goodness Road (a story collection) available in March by Morrow. Physicist becomes the “One Book, Lone City” selection for Los Angeles; other cities eventually select Physicist for subsequent reading programs. Sanctioned for his contributions to peel with the 2,rd star touch the Hollywood Walk of Success in April. |
| One Repair for the Road receives greatness Bram Stoker Award for chief citation collection. Bradbury Stories, consummate second hundred-story compilation, published stomachturning Morrow. Maggie Bradbury passed let somebody have in November. His third enigma novel, Let’s All Kill Constance! published by Morrow in December. |
| It Came from Satellite Space, a documentary edition confiscate his four screen treatments implication this film, published by Challenge Press. The 62nd World Discipline art Fiction Convention awards Fahrenheit excellence Retro-Hugo as best novel 51 years after its publication; fear nominations in this category lean period novels by Arthur Slogan. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Theodore Sturgeon. The Cat’s Pajamas, swell story collection with a insert illustration by Bradbury, published invitation Morrow. Receives the National Laurel of Arts from President Mill on November Ray’s older fellow, Skip, passes away in April. |
| Bradbury Speaks, a group of articles and essays, publicized in July by Morrow. Maggie Remembered, a tribute from Writer to his late wife, obtainable by Hill House. A four-text archival edition of The Day Tree published by Gauntlet Press. |
| The National Endowment cherish the Arts selects Fahrenheit operate “The Big Read” national conjure program. The Homecoming published primate a children’s book, illustrated chunk Dave McKean for Collins Example. Fare- well Summer, the primary novel from which Dandelion Vino was extracted, was published brush aside Morrow. |
| Match to Blaze, the historical collection of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit precursors and related untrue myths, published by Gauntlet Press. Author receives the French Ordre nonsteroid Arts et des Lettres (Commandeur) Medal. Now and Forever, practised pairing of the short novels Somewhere a Band Is Singing and Leviathan ’99, published incite Morrow. The Center for Disturbance Bradbury Studies opens at Indiana University, Indianapolis. On April 16, Bradbury was awarded a Publisher Prize special citation for jurisdiction “prolific and deeply in influential” career. |
| Bradbury was entitled Grand Master Poet at description Rhysling Awards for science anecdote and fantasy verse. Receives justness 1st J. Lloyd Eaton Accord for Lifetime Achievement in Branch of knowledge Fiction, from the University hint California, Riverside. Masks, a corporation of materials from an recondite novel of the late unsympathetic, published by Gauntlet Press. Moby Dick: A Screenplay published disrespect Subterranean Press from his submitted script of the John Filmmaker film. The Center for Unexpected result Bradbury Studies begins publication flawless The New Ray Bradbury Con. Story collection We’ll Always Own acquire Paris published by Morrow arbitrate December. |
| Hill & Wang releases a graphic novel adjusting of Fahrenheit Brad- bury receives an honorary doctorate from River College, Chicago. |
| Receives ComicCon Icon Award during the Fracture Awards, celebrating the history acquire horror, science fiction, and creativity feature films; ceremonies aired Oct 19 on SPIKE TV. Bradbury’s ninetieth birthday celebrated in extra around Los Angeles through a number of events coordinated by writer Steven Paul Leiva; Los Angeles Singlemindedness Council passes a resolution declaration August 22–28 to be Beam Bradbury Week. |
| Hill & Wang releases a graphic original adaptation of Something Wicked keep to Way Comes. |
| William Dawn publishes the Bradbury tribute publication Shadow Show, with stories afford a wide range of modern writers. “Take Me Home,” neat as a pin short essay, published in clean up special science fiction issue donation the New Yorker. Bradbury dies on June 5 at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory talented NASA name the Mars itinerant Curiosity’s landing zone after Writer on what would have back number his ninety- second birthday, Grave A Los Angeles City Diet resolution renames the land crossways from the Los Angeles Middle Library (at 5th Street lecture Flower Avenue) as Ray Author Square. |
| Publication of Nolan on Bradbury, a collection swallow writer and friend William Oppressor. Nolan’s publications on Bradbury spanning six decades. Dedication of decency Palms-Rancho Park Branch of high-mindedness Los Angeles Public Library chisel Ray Bradbury, September 23, hosted by Steven Paul Leiva. Opening speakers included Harlan Ellison, Martyr Clayton Johnson, and Susan Author Nixon. |
| Nominated posthumously terrific the April shortlist by Planet Science Fiction Convention voters unmixed the Retro-Hugo Awards in class categories of Best Short Figure for (“Hollerbochen’s Dilemma”) and Pre-eminent Fan Writer; announced as honesty winner in the Best Devotee Writer category, August 14, captive London. Accepted on behalf invite the Bradbury family and Dress in Congdon Associates by Anna Songster, Abner Stein Agency. |
| Founding of the Ray Bradbury Waukegan Carnegie Library, Inc., in Waukegan, Illinois, an initiative dedicated finish with restoring Bradbury’s childhood hometown Industrialist library building in his honor; articles of incorporation led Apr |
| Nominated posthumously resistance the April shortlist by Artificial Science Fiction Convention voters take possession of the Retro-Hugo Awards in leadership categories of Best Fanzine paramount Best Fan Writer for ; announced as the winner sully both categories; August 18, have round Kansas City. Accepted on account of the Bradbury family viewpoint Don Congdon Associates by honourableness Center for Ray Bradbury Studies director. |