Birth date and place:August
22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois
Parents: Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a lineman for power and telephone utilities, and Ester Moberg Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant.
Early life : Bradbury enjoyed a relatively idyllic childhood in Waukegan. As a child, he was a huge fan of magicians, and a voracious reader of adventure and fantasy fiction—especially L. Frank Baum, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
How he became a writer: Bradbury decided to become a writer at about age 12 or 13.His first official pay as a writer came for contributing a joke to George Burns's Burns & Allen Show. He also published four issues of his own fan magazine, Futuria Fantasia.
Major works : In 1950, Bradbury published his first major work, The Martian Chronicles. Bradbury's best-known work is, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953.
Later achievements: Bradbury won many honors and awards throughout his life.. Such as a special citation from the Pulitzer board for his "distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.