Today is Ray Bradbury’s 91st birthday. I have admired his writing since I was a boy – first hearing The Martian Chronicles dramatized on radio, then reading it. As an…
On this day in 1933 Sara Teasdale died. Teasdale is largely forgotten – a great injustice, I think – except by those who’ve read Ray Bradbury’s short story in The…
This weekend’s celebration of Ray Bradbury in his hometown brings to mind that other great son of Waukegan, Illinois, Jack Benny. Benny was already a vaudeville star when…
Ray Bradbury is 90 this Sunday. I wish him many happy returns. I would also like to thank him for north of 53 years of enjoyment and enlightenment. …