Long-celebrated sci-fi and fantasy writer, Ray Bradbury, died Tuesday night in Southern California, according to the LA Times. His works include numerous classics, including; Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Dandelion Wine. Many of his works, though often seen as controversial, are still taught in public schools nationwide. Much of his work was adapted for film and television, and Bradbury himself wrote for visual media, including writing for The Twilight Zone and penning the screenplay for the 1956 film adaptation of Moby Dick. Author of over fifty books including novels, drama, short story collections, poetry, and nonfiction, up until his death he was a prolific writer.

“What I have always been is a hybrid author,” said Bradbury in 2009. “I am completely in love with movies, and I am completely in love with theater, and I am completely in love with libraries.”

Born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, his family moved to California in 1934, where he’s lived ever since. According to the Huffington Post, he had a habit of writing daily in the basement office at his home in Los Angeles.

Bradbury told the Paris Review, in a 2010 interview, “My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.”

Read Bradbury’s interview with The Paris Review: http://www.theparisreview.org/. Make sure you make it to the end.

Read thirteen memorable quotes from Ray Bradbury at HuffingtonPost.

Bradbury Obituaries from around the web:
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