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Henry Prize (1947 and 1948), the Benjamin Franklin Award (1953-54), the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement (1977), the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award (1985).

Ray Bradbury won many awards in his career, most notably four major awards, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1954, a Daytime Emmy…

Though Bradbury won many honors and awards throughout his life, his favorite was perhaps being named “ideas consultant” for the United States Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair. “Can you imagine how excited I was?” he later said about the honor. “‘Cause I’m changing lives, and that’s the thing.

If we’ve left off one of your favorite Ray Bradbury short stories, let us know in the comments below!

• “A Sound of Thunder”
• “The Next in Line”
• “The Fog Horn”
• “The Pedestrian”
• “The April Witch”
• “All Summer in a Day”
• “The Third Expedition” The Martian Chronicles.
• “Jack-in-the-Box” The October Country.

Since its publication in 1953, Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451 has been censored and banned in several schools in the United States. In Bradbury’s dystopian society, books are censored, and firemen burn novels.

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91 years (1920–2012)

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In an interview with the National Endowment for the Arts, Bradbury explained how he came up with this concept: “Well, Hitler, of course. When I was 15, he burned the books in the streets of Berlin. Then along the way I learned about the libraries in Alexandria burning 5000 years ago. …

Raymond Douglas Bradbury

“Fahrenheit 451” was set in a dystopic society in which books were outlawed. One of Bradbury’s famous quotes alludes to what happens when books are not valued: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

Fahrenheit 451 presents a future dystopian American society where books are outlawed and “firemen” are charged with burning any that are found. So it was only natural that I sat down and wrote Fahrenheit 451.” When Bradbury was 30, he was walking down the street with a friend when a police car pulled up.

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It is unlikely that Mildred killed Clarisse, who was reportedly hit by a car. Clarisse’s nonconformist values could have made her a target of their government, or she might have been intentionally killed by reckless teenagers.

Not quite. Bradbury’s title refers to the auto-ignition point of paper—the temperature at which it will catch fire without being exposed to an external flame. Bradbury asserted that “book-paper” burns at 451 degrees, and it’s true that different kinds of paper have different auto-ignition temperatures.

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Beatty Lives, Montag Dies. Perhaps the biggest change from the book comes at the very end in a major reversal of the main characters’ fates. First, Beatty accuses Montag of being a traitor outside his own home, but Montag grabs the flamethrower and turns it on his captain.

In Fahrenheit 451, Montag is not in love with Clarisse in a conventionally romantic sense, but he does seem to love her free spirit and her unusual way of looking at the world.