Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.

Latest episodes of the podcast Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre

• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - The Fruit At The Bottom Of The Bowl
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - I Sing The Body Electric
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - Jack In The Box
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - The Wind
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - Skeleton
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - The Scythe
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - The Man Upstairs
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - The Day It Rained Forever
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - And So Died Riabouchinska
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - The Jar
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - Have I Got A Chocolate Bar For You
• Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre - Night Call Collect