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Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on the 22nd of August 1920 in the small town of Waukegan, Illinois USA. He is one of the most notorious American writers who write novels based on science fiction, fantasy, horror and mystery themes. Ray Bradbury is best known for his books “Fahrenheit 451” and “The Martian Chronicles”. This famous novelist even adapted to the small screen, were his popularity was even increased by over than 20 television stations in America. Douglas since his early age was interested in books and was spending a lot of time in the library in his town the Carnegie Library. This library leaves a strong impression on Ray Bradbury after which he in the future books uses the library as the setting for novels such as “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. Besides writing about science fiction and horrors he published even essays about art and cultures were he got attention from the critics in this genre. Bradbury’s novels are even adapted from 1951 to 1954 for the EC comic books by Al Feldstein.