Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles , a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 . He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most popular American writers of speculative fiction during the twentieth century.
