Something Wonderful This Way Comes: A Tribute to Ray Bradbury

The breadth and depth of the ‘Fahrenheit 451’ author’s body of works continue to be explored and appreciated by modern-day readers.
Something Wonderful This Way Comes: A Tribute to Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury at a 1977 World Fantasy Convention. Will Hart/CC BY 2.0
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If you or your kids or your grandkids haven’t read this fine American writer, now is the perfect time to pick up a story and turn the page.

The television series “The Ray Bradbury Theater” opens with Bradbury turning on the lights in two rooms cluttered with drawings and paintings, memorabilia running from a globe to a Tiffany lamp to a picture of Mickey Mouse, toys and gadgets, piles of papers, and hundreds of books in cases, on every tabletop, and stacked on the floor. As his friend Dana Gioia wrote, “No boy ever had a cooler clubhouse or enjoyed it more.”
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.