Ray Douglas Bradbury's Chundu The Magician

At one point in every bodies life people always look up to someone and aspire to become them. Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan Illinois. His mother was Esther, she was a Swedish immigrant, his father was Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, and he had English ancestors. He got his middle name from the actor Douglas Fairbanks. When he was a young boy he read many poems by Edgar Allen Poe and that is what influenced him to write his first books until he was eighteen. Chundu the Magician was a radio show that was a hugh impact on Bradbury’s life. After the show ended Bradbury wrote every episode by memory and that is what got him into writing. When he was a kid he was born and raised in Waukegan, which is the setting for many of his stories. Also in LA he met a police man that inspired him to write the book Fahrenheit 451. The radio show Chundu the

Bradbury started to write at the age of twelve. During his early writing life he wrote a lot of horror novels. It stuck with him for the rest of his life and in every single one of his novels there is always a death especially by a major character or the villain. He was in love with Poe because he was interested in how wrote his poems. Poe’s writing style was very unique and so Bradbury did not want to be like every other author, he wanted to be different and that’s why he stated writing science fiction novels. Another Writer that influenced Bradbury was Burrough, he wrote The Warlord of Mars which is a comic (Mesic). Bradbury wrote his own sequel to Burrough’s comic when he was twelve. He loved the comic so much that he could not wait to read the next one so that why he wrote his own edition of the comic. Bradbury loved to write horror and his settings were mostly out of this world. Overall Bradbury was influenced by many Authors and the themes of his novels came from Poe and