Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury has been considered one of America’s greatestscience-fiction writer’s. His work often satires human nature and showshis reader’s the flaws found deep within the individual. Not only isBradbury a novelist, but he is also a , short-story writer, essayist,playwright, screenwriter, and poet Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920, thethird son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie MobergBradbury. In 1926 Ray Bradbury's family moved from Waukegan, Illinoisto Tucson, Arizona, only to return to Waukegan again in May 1927. By1931 (the dawn of the Great Depression) he began writing his ownstories on butcher paper. In 1932, after his father was laid off his job asa telephone lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson andagain returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradburyfamily moved to Los Angeles, California. Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938.
