Ray Bradbury net worth
Ray Bradbury Net Worth: Ray Bradbury is an American author who has a net worth of $30 million. Born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1920, Ray Bradbury is best remembered for writing the classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 in 1953. Bradbury began writing at the age of 11, and his family moved to Los Angeles three years later.
As a teenager, he was fascinated by Hollywood, often sneaking into uptown theaters to watch movies. He soon began submitting his short stories to publishers, and his work “Homecoming” appeared in “Miss” magazine and won a place in the 1947 O. Henry Story Prize. In the late 1930s, he began writing science fiction stories and performing them on stage. In 1950, he published his first novel, The Chronicles of Mars, and a year later, Illustrated hit the shelves. Three years later, he wrote Fahrenheit 451. He has 27 novels and more than 600 stories. An estimated eight million copies of his books have been sold around the world. In 1994, Bradbury won a Daytime Emmy for “The Tree of Halloween,” and a decade later won the National Medal of Arts. In 2007, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for outstanding professional achievement. He married Margaret McClure in 1947 and they remained together until her death in 2003. They have four daughters, and his wife is the only woman Bradbury has ever dated. He died on June 5, 2012 in Los Angeles due to a long illness.
