Why Does Ray Bradbury Write The Way He Does?

Why Does Ray Bradbury Write The Way He Does?

When talking about the great American writers of all time, one name will always come up: Ray Bradbury. He has expanded his writing abilities through many careers, such as being a novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet, although his science fiction novels   have been able to captivate human imagination for decades, and continues to till this day, with five hundred works that he has published throughout his career. But what has caused Ray Bradbury to become the writer he is known as today? Bradbury's upbringing and influences have made him the writer everyone has come to know and love so dearly.
Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920. His father, Leonard Spalding Bradbury, was an electrical lineman. His mother, Ester Moberg Bradbury, was a native of Sweden. One of his older twin brothers died at birth, and he also had a sister who died in infancy when Ray was only seven years old. Though economic problems took Bradbury's family to Arizona twice in search of work to support their family, Bradbury's memories of his early years are positive. The family finally settled down permanently in Los Angeles in 1934, which was a dream come true for Bradbury (Magill). His mind was intrigued and amazed by movies when he was younger, and he had always wanted to live near the center of the film industry in Hollywood. Claiming he has a photographic memory, Bradbury recalls that his earliest interest in a specific type of writing, horror fiction, arose from him watching The Hunchback of Notre Dame when he was three years old (Weigel). Along with films, Bradbury also enjoyed the wonder and adventure of fictional works such as radio, comic books, and the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne. He enjoyed Burroughs' Mars series so much that when he was only twelve years old, unable to await a sequel to the most recent book of the series, he and a friend wrote their own sequel to the novel (Magill).
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