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Ray Bradbury Dies at 91

Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury
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Author Ray Bradbury, best known for the 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, has died at age 91, according to reports.

Bradbury founded L.A.’s Pandemoium Theatre Company in 1964, which eventually produced a play version of the Farenheit 451, as well as The World According to Ray Bradbury, an adaptation of the three of the author’s short stories.


His many other books included The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Dandelion Wine.


Bradbury was also a prolific writer of scripts for film and television, including an adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick for John Huston, the Daytime Emmy Award-winning The Halloween Tree, as well as numerous episodes of the popular TV series The Ray Bradbury Theater and The Twilight Zone.


He received a special Pulitzer Prize citation “for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy,” and an honorary National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement, among his many honors.


Bradbury is survived by his four daughters.