Ray Bradbury:
Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois to Leonard and Esther Marie Bradbury. In 1931 he began using butcher paper to jot down a few stories. In 1934, Bradbury and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he went to Los Angeles High School. He was very active in the drama club at his high school, as he was looking forward to becoming an actor. His first pay as a writer was from George Burns, for contributing a joke to the Burns & Allen Show. Two of his teacher helped guide him to his writing career, Snow Longley Housh, who taught him poetry, and Jeannet Johnson, who taught him how to write short stories. Outside of school, he joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, and he also joined his school’s poetry club. His first published short story was “Hollerbochen’s Dilemma,” printed in 1938. In 1945 his short story “The Big Black and White Game,” was select
ed for Best American Short Stories. In 1946 he met his future wife Marguerite “Maggie” McClure, who he married in 1947. They had four daughters, Susan, Ramona, Bettina, and Alexandra. He currently has eight grandchildren, and lectures part time. Setting: The 21st century in an automated house with no people. Irony: Irony of Situation: It is ironic that the house would stay alive longer than the people who built it, and built it’s technology around theirs.
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