(born 1920) Bradbury an explorer of the imagination, began his publishing career in the 1940s in pulp magazines. His later stories and novels combine science-fiction scenarios with deeply human twists of the imagination in search of meaning and identity and poetic imagery He has also shown a cinematic awareness of American oddities and possibilities.

Major works include the Martian Chronicles (1950), which reinvent an American narrative of discovery and adaptation, and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962).

His Fahrenheit 451 was also made into a movie (1966).