Ray Douglas Bradbury, the author of more than 500 published literary works, was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920. Bradbury moved with his family to Tucson, Arizona when he was 6, but returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1932, Bradbury's father lost his job and the family again moved to Tucson, only to return to Waukegan the next year. In 1934, when Bradbury was 14, the family moved permanently to Los Angeles. Bradbury would spend the rest of his life in LA, but he always regarded Waukegan as his hometown, going so far as to use it in two of his novels (including Dandelion Wine), under the pseudonym of Green Town.
In 1937, at the age of 17, Bradbury became a member of...
