Bradbury, Ray(mond) Douglas (1920– )

US author. He is best known as a writer of science fiction, a genre he helped make ‘respectable’ to a wider readership. His work is concerned with the hazards of unregulated technology and shows nostalgia for small-town Midwestern life, and includes The Martian Chronicles (1950), Fahrenheit 451 (1953), R is for Rocket, S is for Space (1962), Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), and Yestermorrow (1991).

Some of his short stories are collected in The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980) and One More for the Road (2002). He also has written several volumes of poetry, television and motion-picture screenplays, radio dramas, and children's stories. He was awarded the National Book Award's 2000 medal for distinguished contribution to American letters.