Ray Bradbury's Life And Accomplishments

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August 22, 1920 in Waukegan IL the cry of a newborn was heard. Ray Bradbury an American Author, born to Leonard and Esther Bradbury, took his first breath that day. From that day on he did amazing things for short stories and other types of literature. He had only an older brother since two of his other siblings died at young ages. He kept his head up though as he finished High School and opened his career in writing. He married his wife Maggie, in 1947, and they lived happily together until she died in 2003, but not before they had four beautiful daughters and a few dozen house cats together. Throughout his life he won many awards and wrote some amazing pieces of literature. Bradbury had a rough start on life. He had older twin brothers …show more content…
It is used in many schools and textbooks and it was even sold in mass throughout bookstores around the states. Bradbury won many awards in his time. The O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement Award, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, Among others. MAny people would say his biggest success was all the awards he won, or how many people he touched with his work. Bradbury on the other hand said “I don't need to be vindicated," he said, "and I don't want attention. I never question. I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.” (Ray Bradbury, Biography). Bradbury got his childhood dream when he became a writer, husband, and father. To Bradbury that was his greatest …show more content…
Many people would call that in itself a success, but his short stories are also in more than one thousand school curriculums. Used all over the states. He had the butterfly affect on people. His ideas spread like a wildfire once they caught on. He wasn’t playing around with goofy ideas when he wrote, he was writing to tell us a critical lesson. Like in The Sound of Thunder, a story telling you that your decisions can have a butterfly effect (No pun intended). Once you make even the smallest decision it can affect everyone around you, even strangers. Bradbury taught us a lesson in all of this books. That is why he is a legend
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