Yet again in my Reading and Writing for Self-Discovery Class we are watching a classic. Something Wicked This Way Comes is a novel by the well known science fiction author Ray Bradbury. This is the Hollywood adaptation of his popular novel Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Ray Bradbury has written many novels and short stories including Fahrenheit 451, All Summer in a Day and many more short stories. He was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. His first paid job as a writer was for a popular 1930's television show, The Burns and Allen Show. He was given this job at the age of only fourteen. He became a full time writer by the end of 1942. He sold his first piece for $13.72. Perhaps his most famous work, Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953.; To this day it sells around 50,000 copies a year. Sadly, Ray Bradbury died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91 to a long time illness. On his tomb stone, it reads: Ray Bradbury, 1920, Author of Fahrenheit 451. He died in Los Angeles.