Becoming Ray Bradbury chronicles the making of an iconic American
writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his
long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theater.
Jonathan R. Eller measures the impact of the authors, artists,
illustrators, and filmmakers who stimulated Bradbury's imagination
throughout his first three decades. Unprecedented access to
Bradbury's personal papers and other private collections provides
insight into his emerging talent through his unpublished
correspondence, his rare but often insightful notes on writing, and
his interactions with those who mentored him during those early
years.Beginning with his childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, and Los
Angeles, this biography follows Bradbury's development from avid
reader to maturing author, making a living writing for the genre
pulps and mainstream magazines. Eller illuminates the sources of
Bradbury's growing interest in the human mind, the human condition,
and the ambiguities of life and death--themes that became
increasingly apparent in his early fiction. Bradbury's
correspondence documents his frustrating encounters with the major
trade publishing houses and his earliest unpublished reflections on
the nature of authorship. Eller traces the sources of Bradbury's
very conscious decisions, following the sudden success of The
Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, to voice controversial
political statements in his fiction. Eller also elucidates the
complex creative motivations that yielded Fahrenheit 451. Becoming
Ray Bradbury reveals Bradbury's emotional world as it matured
through his explorations of cinema and art, his interactions with
agents and editors, his reading discoveries, and the invaluable
reading suggestions of older writers. These largely unexplored
elements of his life pave the way to a deeper understanding of his
more public achievements, providing a biography of the mind, the
story of Bradbury's self-education and the emerging sense of
authorship at the heart of his boundless creativity.
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