The October Country

“One of this country’s most beloved writers…A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic.” – Washington Post

“An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation.” – New York Times

“Without Ray Bradbury there would be no Stephen King, at least as he grew. Bradbury was one of my nurturing influences. First in EC Comics, then in Weird Tales… What was striking was how far down the viscera he was able to delve into these stories–how far beyond the prudish stopped-point of his 1940s contemporaries. In that sense, Ray was to the horror story what D.H. Lawrence was to the story of sexual love.” – Stephen King

“How I passed so much of my life without devouring everything Ray Bradbury has ever read is beyond me…on the bright side, how fortunate I am to experience all this for the first time! My God.” – R. F. Kuang

“A prescient, lyrical writer with an abiding hatred for intolerance, Bradbury influenced generations of readers and many of our most famous dreamers, from Stephen King to Steven Spielberg.” – Junot Diaz

In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.