In 1934 the family moved to Los Angeles. There's Ray graduated from high school for three years after that working paperboy. Youth writer came to the Great Depression, and the family simply could not afford to send him to study in college. Even at graduation at school he had to go in a suit uncle, who died at the hands of robbers. Bullet holes in the jacket neatly stitched.
In another 12 years, Ray knew he wanted to become a writer. Despite financial difficulties, he stubbornly went to the goal during the college years, was replaced in the library. Among the favorite writers he called Dostoevsky, Chesterton, Dickens, Poe, Huxley. In 1971, Bradbury wrote the article "How I finished college instead of the library, or thoughts teenager walked on the moon in 1932".
In the first literary experiments mimicked the style of Ray Bradbury's favorite authors, and then gradually found his. The first story writer was published in 1941. The first time the works were printed in the collections of the motley fiction, in 1947 came the first author's collection Bradbury. But popularity came to him only in 1950, when the light appeared book "The Martian Chronicles". To the size of the global fame grew after the release of the novel "Fahrenheit 451".
Since then, the life of Ray Bradbury was filled with diverse and active work - he wrote over 400 short stories, novels, 9, 4 stories, numerous articles, became a writer of many films, participated in the development of architectural projects. He has been awarded numerous literary awards, among them - Bram Stoker Award, Nebula, O. Henry, American Academy, Pulitzer and others.
Throughout his life, Ray Bradbury supported by his wife - Margaret McClure, with which they lived for 56 years. In marriage, and they had four daughters.