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Ray Bradbury Research Paper
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Ray Bradbury was an author of many different genres of books. He was born on August 22nd of 1920 and passed away June 5th of 2012. Ray had 4 daughters: Susan, Romona, Bettina & Alexandra, from these daughters he was blessed with eight grandchildren. Ray also had a wife named Marguerite who passed away in 2003. During his life Ray started out living in Waukegan, Illinois and when he became 14 years old his family moved to Tucson, Arizona and when they arrived there his family only had $40 to survive until they found jobs.

Ray said that he knew he was going to be a writer at the age of 3 because he had such passion for it, and he kept that passion until the day he died. During Ray’s career he had many achievements and books published!

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