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 * 1) Ray Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet
 * 2) was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois
 * 3) He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938
 * 4) his formal education ended there
 * 5) selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942
 * 6) He became a full-time writer in 1943
 * 7) wrote many short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them,//Dark Carnival //, in 1947.
 * 8) publication of //The Martian Chronicles // in 1950, which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars
 * 9) Next came //The Illustrated Man // and then, in 1953
 * 10) //Fahrenheit 451 //, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece
 * 11) Other works include //The October Country //, //Dandelion Wine //, //A Medicine for Melancholy //, //Something Wicked This Way Comes //, //I Sing the Body Electric! //, //Quicker Than the Eye //, and //Driving Blind //.
 * 12) In all, Bradbury has published more than thirty books, close to 600 short stories, and numerous poems, essays, and plays
 * 13) His short stories have appeared in more than 1,000 school curriculum "recommended reading" anthologies.
 * 14) in four //Best American Short Story // collections
 * 15) awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award
 * 16) has been nominated for an Academy Award (for his animated film //Icarus Montgolfier Wright //)
 * 17) has won an Emmy Award (for his teleplay of //The Halloween Tree //).
 * 18) He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's Ray Bradbury Theater.
 * 19) He was the creative consultant on the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair
 * 20) In 1982 he created the interior metaphors for the Spaceship Earth display at Epcot Center, Disney World
 * 21) later contributed to the conception of the Orbitron space ride at Euro-Disney, France

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 * 1) Married since 1947
 * 2) Mr. Bradbury and his wife Maggie lived in Los Angeles with their numerous cats
 * 3) Together, they raised four daughters
 * 4) had eight grandchildren
 * 5) Maggie passed away in November of 2003
 * 6) third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury
 * 7) middle name "Douglas," after the actor, Douglas Fairbank
 * 8) In Bradbury's works of fiction, 1920s Waukegan becomes "Greentown," Illinoisuser:Mennwa_Abouelatta
 * 9) Between 1926 and 1933 moved back and forth between Waukegan and Tucson, Arizona
 * 10) In 1931, young Ray began writing his own stories on butcher paper.
 * 11) In 1934 moved to Los Angeles, California.
 * 12) As a teenager, Bradbury roller-skated through Hollywood, trying to spot celebrities
 * 13) friends with special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen and radio star George Burns.
 * 14) In fact, it was Burns who gave Bradbury his first pay as a writer -- for contributing a joke to the // Burns & Allen Show //.
 * 15) was active in the drama club and planned to become an actor.
 * 16) two of his teachers encouraged his development as a writer.
 * 17) Snow Longley Housh taught him about poetry
 * 18) Jeannet Johnson taught him to write short stories
 * 19) grew serious about becoming a writer.
 * 20) made fan publications and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction League
 * 21) At school he improved his grades and joined the Poetry Club.

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 * 1) 1930's:
 * 2) Population: 123,188,000 in 48 states
 * 3) Life Expectancy: Male, 58.1; Female, 61.6
 * 4) Average salary: $1,368
 * 5) Unemployment rises to 25%
 * 6) Huey Long propses a guaranteed annual income of $2,500
 * 7) Car Sales: 2,787,400
 * 8) Food Prices: Milk, 14 cents a qt.; Bread, 9 cents a loaf; Round Steak, 42 cents a pound
 * 9) 1940's:
 * 10) Population 132,122,000
 * 11) Unemployed in 1940 - 8,120,000
 * 12) National Debt $43 Billion
 * 13) Average Salary $1,299. Teacher's salary $1,441
 * 14) Minimum Wage $.43 per hour
 * 15) 55% of U.S. homes have indoor plumbing
 * 16) Antarctica is discovered to be a continent
 * 17) Life expectancy 68.2 female, 60.8 male
 * 18) Auto deaths 34,500
 * 19) Supreme Court decides blacks do have a right to vote
 * 20) World War II changed the order of world power; the United States and the USSR become super powers
 * 21) Cold War begins

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 * 1) 1930's: The best hope for a better life was California
 * 2) Many dust bowl farmers packed their families into cars tied their few possessions on the back, and sought work in the agricultural fields or cities of the West
 * 3) 1929 and 1932 the income of the average American family was reduced by 40%, from $2,300 to $1,500.
 * 4) Instead of aDemocracies such as Germany and Italy fell to dictatorships
 * 5) but survival became the keyword
 * 6) democracy prevailed in us
 * 7) 1940's: WWII
 * 8) women worked
 * 9) out of the great depression
 * 10) more men got a college education
 * 11) no one needed personally owned farms
 * 12) UCLA library to type Fahrenheit 10 cents a half hour
 * 13) finished in 9 days, had two babys at home
 * 14) book burning by nazis inspired him
 * 15) was afriaid something like the holocaust can happen close by
 * 16) never actually predicted this world
 * 17) doesnt mean to show the growth of montag but wat can influence grown ups, teenagers
 * 18) turning point in book is when Mrs, Hudson burned with the books because she was willing to
 * 19) would commit a christmas carol to memory if he was in book
 * 20) a Christmas carol influenced his life more than any other book
 * 21) German soldiers and civilians give the Nazi salute, thousands of books smolder during a bookburning, May 1933