American · 1920–2012
American writer who poeticized science fiction. Born in Waukegan, Illinois, raised in Los Angeles, he sold newspapers and wrote daily. The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes established his lyrical style. Fahrenheit 451 became a classic of dystopian literature. He wrote television, theater, and poetry alongside fiction. His Mars is nostalgic, his America haunted, his prose rhythmic and incantatory. He never learned to drive, never flew, and wrote on a typewriter until his death. The imagination stayed vivid.