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Also Known As	Ray Douglas Bradbury
Born	August 22, 1920 • Waukegan • Illinois
Died	June 5, 2012 (aged 91) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors	Hugo Award • Pulitzer Prize (2007) • National Medal of Arts (2004) • Emmy Award (1994)
Notable Works	“A Medicine for Melancholy” • “A Sound of Thunder” • “Dandelion Wine” • “Death Is a Lonely Business” • “Fahrenheit 451” • “Farewell, My Lovely” • “Farewell Summer” • “Something Wicked This Way Comes” • “The Illustrated Man” • “The Martian Chronicles”

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