![]() ![]() I was 11-a magical age to discover the author. Of course, the time came when I truly discovered Bradbury as a reader myself. My father read Bradbury aloud to my mother when I was nine months in utero. The story behind my becoming Ray Bradbury’s biographer was, well, rather Bradburian. But truth be told, there is a more chimerical backstory that begins long before this. ![]() In my case, my biography, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (HarperPerennial, 2006) grew out a profile I wrote about the author on the occasion of his 80th birthday for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine. Bradbury, of course, is the author of such timeless works of the fantastic as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Dandelion Wine, to name a few.Ĭertainly, every biographer of a living writer or artist has their own decidedly singular path to their subject. I worked with him over twelve years on four books and a graphic novel. In this case, the author is Ray Bradbury. ![]() It is the question I am asked most often-“How does one become the authorized biographer of a literary legend?” ![]()
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