Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury -- Ray Bradbury

<b>Ray Bradbury, the iconic author of <i>Fahrenheit 451</i>, <i>The Martian Chronicles</i>, and <i>Something Wicked This Way Comes</i>, believed that a collection of his letters could someday illuminate the story of his life in new ways. That story emerges across time and memory in the pages of <i>Remembrance</i>.</b> <p/>Ray Bradbury was one of the best-known writers and creative dreamers of our time. The many honors he received, which included an Emmy and Academy Award nomination for adaptations of his work, culminated in the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a 2004 National Medal of Arts, and a 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. For many years NASA and the Disney Studio felt the impact of Ray Bradbury's creativity, and his fiction has found its way into hundreds of anthologies, textbooks, and the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read program. His enduring legacy as a storyteller, novelist, and space-age visionary radiated out into popular adaptations for stage, film, and television, and now the fascinating narratives and insights of his personal and professional correspondence are revealed for the first time. <p/><i>Remembrance </i>offers the first sustained look at his life in letters from his late teens to his ninth decade. Bradbury's correspondence was far-reaching--he interacted with a rich cross-section of 20th-century cultural figures, writers, film directors, editors, and others who simply wanted insigh