Born: August 22, 1920, Waukegan, IL

Died: June 5, 2012, Los Angeles, CA

After highschool, he spent the next four years educating himself: he spent his mornings selling
newspapers on L.A. street corners, his days writing, and his nights reading at the public library.
In 1943, Bradbury decided to become a full-time writer
Married Marguerite McClure, a bookstore clerk and the love of his life.
Grew up in a time when Nazis burned books in Germany and witnessed Stalins Great Purge
where poets and writers were censored, arrested, and sometimes executed

Bradbury gained inspiration to start writing from Mr. Electrico:

A visit to the carnival (at 12 years old), he met Mr. Electrico who awakened Bradbury to the
notions of reincarnation and immortality. Wrote every day in his life after that day.
A newspaper article By Lynell George quoted Bradbury. Bradbury began to write, unleashing
his worries and obsessions into stories he scribbled on butcher paper. He wrote every day for the
next several decades, producing one of the richest legacies in American literature: more than 27
novels, 600 short stories and classic story collections, including Fahrenheit 451
This explains how F451 is Bradbury fear, because he wrote his worries and obsessions on a lot
of his books

Fahrenheit 451 is inspired by Hitler:

Fear for the future, written 5 years after WW2
Feared that the libraries -his educators- were in danger.
A interview with Bradbury shows how his inspiration from Hitler led to his fear of the future
DG: What was the origin of the idea of books being burned in the novel?
RB: Well, Hitler of course. When I was fifteen, he burnt the books in the streets of Berlin. Then
along the way I learned about the libraries in Alexandria burning five thousand years ago. That
grieved my soul. Since I'm self-educated, that means my educatorsthe librariesare in danger.
And if it could happen in Alexandria, if it could happen in Berlin, maybe it could happen
somewhere up ahead, and my heroes would be killed.