Bradbury went on to pen over thirty novels, including Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451, and hundreds of short stories, poems, and plays. In 1947, he married his long-time girlfriend, Marguerite, the only woman he had ever dated, and published Dark Carnival, a collection of short stories, that same year. I believe in libraries.” Bradbury sold his first story, “The Lake,” in 1942 for less than fourteen dollars, and he began writing full-time two years later after he was denied entrance into the United States military due to bad eyesight. He was quoted as saying, “I don’t believe in colleges and universities. He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1938, the same year he published his first story, “Hollerbochen’s Dilemma,” in the magazine Imagination! Bradbury did not attend college and openly rejected higher education. As a child, Bradbury was an avid reader, and while he initially wanted to be a magician, he began writing at the young age of eleven. For Bradbury, Waukegan symbolized safety and comfort, and it serves as the inspiration for Green Town, the fictional city in Something Wicked This Way Comes. Despite his love for Los Angeles, however, Waukegan remained an important part of his life. Bradbury immediately fell in love with Hollywood and frequently snuck into movie theaters and roller-skated throughout the city hoping to catch a glimpse of movie stars. Bradbury’s family struggled financially during the Great Depression, and they moved back and forth between Waukegan and Tucson, Arizona, before finally settling in Los Angeles, California, when Bradbury was fourteen years old. Ray Bradbury was born the third of four children to Esther Moberg and Leonard Spaulding Bradbury in Waukegan, a large city near Chicago, Illinois.

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