Ray Douglas Bradbury August 22 1920 June 5 2012 was an American fantasy horror science fiction and mystery writer Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 1953 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles 1950 and The Illustrated Man 1951 Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of speculative fiction Many of Bradburys works have been adapted into television shows or films Description above from the Wikipedia article Ray Bradbury licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia