The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray BradburyAccomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to private archives, he uncovered never–before–published letters, documents, and photographs that help tell the story of this literary genius and his remarkable creative journey. The result is a richly textured, detailed biography that illuminates the origins and accomplishments of Bradbury's fascinating mind. |
Contents
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| 38 | |
the sorcerers apprentice | 45 |
welcome back to the world | 51 |
new frontiers | 60 |
hooray for hollywood | 69 |
learning to fly | 77 |
futuria fantasia | 88 |
the illustrated man | 163 |
the golden apples of the sun | 179 |
fahrenheit 451 | 198 |
the white whale | 213 |
return to green town | 233 |
something wicked | 249 |
the american journey | 262 |
remembering the future | 278 |
pulp heroes | 98 |
the poet of the pulps | 105 |
down mexico way | 121 |
dark carnival | 131 |
love and marriage | 145 |
the red planet | 153 |
wicked redux | 294 |
cathode ray | 310 |
acknowledgments | 333 |
selected bibliography | 365 |
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