1. Ray Bradbury
Author Background

2. Legacy
Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.
Named “The World’s Greatest Sci-Fi Writer” by the New York Times
Believes he is not a science-fiction writer. Why? The subjects of most of his books are “based on the real”
Dystopian Literature

3. Best- Known Novels Martian Chronicles Fahrenheit 451
The Illustrated Man

4. Fahrenheit 451
The novel presents a future American society where reading is outlawed and firemen start fires to burn books. Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era.
Over the years, the novel has been subject to various interpretations, primarily focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas. Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of factoids, partial information devoid of context.