He donated his personal library to the Waukegan Public Library. Together they raised four daughters and many cats. In There Will Come Soft Rains, Bradbury further expands on fire and technology’s power to destroy through its inevitable destruction of itself: Bradbury’s themes are structured around fire and death as though it is necessary to forewarn the coming of an America bent on destroying itself.

In his personal life, Bradbury enjoyed a marriage of 56 years with Marguerite McClure. Much of Bradbury’s writing predicts new technology and speaks out against the anti-social behavior it encourages. Throughout his life, Bradbury never got a driver’s license, preferring to rely on bikes and public transportation. This self-made artist also resisted many of the comforts of technology, including hand-held radios, e-books, and even cars. Bradbury was a great supporter of public libraries throughout his life, praising them as places for free thought and exploration. Bradbury attributed much of his creativity to the fact that he never attended college, since he thought institutions of higher education confine one’s development.

He mixed fantasy, horror, comedy, memoir, and occasionally science fiction to craft stories that are one-of-a-kind. 'There Will Come Soft Rains' is titled after the randomly selected poem read by the house, which is an actual poem by Sara Teasdale. While most literary critics consider Bradbury to be a science fiction writer, Bradbury resisted that blanket description of his work. He continued to write for decades and became one of America’s most celebrated authors of the 20th century.

Quick on its heels came The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953), which is Bradbury’s most celebrated novel to date. He sold a few jokes and plays before publishing his first short story collection, Dark Carnival, in 1947. At twelve years old, Bradbury began writing daily. There he graduated from high school, and the rest of his education came from public libraries and the streets of Hollywood. Ray Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains is the science fiction writer’s most widely anthologized short story. Born in 1920 to Esther and Leonard Bradbury, Ray spent his formative teen years in Los Angeles.

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