Ray Bradbury, Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 91
By GERALD JONAS
June 6, 2012
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Ray Bradbury at a book signing in California in 1997.
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Ray Bradbury, in 1966, with a picture that was part of a school project to illustrate characters in one of his dramas.
Ray Bradbury,a master of science fiction whose lyrical evocations of the future reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 91.