Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences

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to the kiddies and being paid in free movie tickets, to local cinema,
where I saw ‘The Mummy,' ‘The Murders in the Wax Museum,' ‘Dracula' ...and ‘
King Kong.'” (Johnson 2). In reference to his one year in Tucson Arizona,
Bradbury recalls “‘It was one of the greatest years of my life because I
was acting and singing in operettas and writing, beginning to write my
first short stories.'” (Johnson 2). After graduating from high school,
Bradbury bought a typewriter and rented an office with the money saved from
selling newspapers. While in his early twenties, Bradbury sold one
science-fiction short stories every month for four years. He was paid $20
for each story. “Bradbury sold some of his first stories in 1945 to
magazines such as Collier's, Charm, and Mademoiselle.” (Kunitz and
Haycraft 111,112).
Ray Bradbury had a number of literary influences. “At its best,
Bradbury's prose combines influences from a wide variety of writers, as
well as other media-films, radio, and ...

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