Ray Bradbury
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Raymond Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 –June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author.
Widely known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) as well as his science fiction and horror story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950) The Illustrated Man (1951), and There Will Come Soft Rains (1950). Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American genre writers.