![]() Discovers Amazing Stories Quarterly, one of the earliest science fiction pulps. Aunt Neva reads him Edgar Allan Poe’s works. Sick in bed with whooping cough, Ray misses three months of school during the fall term. Ray’s baby sister, Elizabeth, dies of pneumonia in February. A young cousin almost drowns in Lake Michigan he uses this incident much later in “The Lake.” ![]() Ray’s sister, Elizabeth Jane Bradbury, is born in Tucson. Begins 1st grade in Waukegan, but father moves family to Roswell, New Mexico, then to Tucson, Arizona, looking for work. Grandfather Bradbury dies, and Aunt Neva starts reading Ray the Oz books by L. Sees Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera with his mother and again with his brother, Skip. Grandfather shows him pictures of the 18 world’s fairs. Parents help him learn to read from the newspaper comics. Given 1st book of fairy tales, Once Upon a Time, by his aunt Neva Brad- bury for Christmas. ![]() Learns about radio from his paternal grand- father. In February (age three), taken by mother to see Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Twin boys were born four years earlier, but one, Samuel, died at age two. ![]() Ray Douglas Bradbury born August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, the third child of Esther Moberg Bradbury and Leonard Bradbury. ![]()
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