CoverCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. From the Nursery to the Library2. L.A. High and the Science Fiction League3. Hannes Bok and the Lorelei4. NYCon 19395. Futuria Fantasia6. From the Fanzines to the Prozines7. Early Disappointments: The Science Fiction PulpsPart II8. Living in Two Worlds9. Reading about Writing10. Early Mentors: Hamilton, Williamson, and Brackett11. “Chrysalis”: Bradbury and Henry Kuttner12. A New World of Reading13. An Emerging Sense of Critical Judgment14. On the Shoulders of Giants15. The Road to Autumn’s HouseIllustrations follow pages 96 and 210Part III16. Exploring the Human Mind17. Exploring the Human Condition18. With the Blessings of His Mentors19. New Stories and New Opportunities20. Life and Death in Mexico21. Transitions: Bradbury and Don Congdon22. The Power of Love23. From Arkham to New York24. Obsessed with Perfection25. Dark CarnivalPart IV26. Lifetime Partnerships27. The Illinois Novel28. Bradbury and Modernity29. Modernist Alternatives30. Finding His Own Way31. The Anthology Game32. Paradise Postponed33. Broadening Horizons34. The Miracle Year: Winter and SpringIllustrations follow pages 96 and 21035. The Miracle Year: Summer and FallPart V36. Critical Praise, Private Worries37. New York, 195138. Controversial Fictions39. New Worlds: Graphic and Television Adaptations40. The Wheel of Fortune41. Joe Mugnaini and The Golden Apples of the Sun42. Bantam and Ballantine43. Hollywood at Last44. Political Controversy45. Fahrenheit 45146. The Last Night of the WorldNotesIndex
The authoritative biography of Ray Bradbury's early years
Jonathan R. Eller is a Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI), the senior textual editor of the Institute for American Thought, and director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI. His books Becoming Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury Unbound were each finalists for the Locus Award in the Nonfiction category.
"Every page is packed with fascinating material about one of this country's most beloved writers." Washington Post "Ray Bradbury did much of his best writing very early on in his career. The work of his mid-career received less praise and consideration, and he, to some extent, lost his audience in later years. But it was with those fine early stories and novels that he broke out of the ghetto of the science-fiction pulps and into the mainstream of slick magazines and literary salons. In Becoming Ray Bradbury, Jonathan R. Eller shows how Bradbury found his vocation in a private world of mimeographed fanzines and couch-surfing, of transcontinental trips to the very first SF conventions, of the intense rivalries and controversies of a small enclosed world... Eller's excellent account makes clear that one of the reasons why Bradbury came to seem an important new voice is that he was never as naive a writer as literary patrons such as Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley may have assumed." - Roz Kaveney, Times Literary Supplement "Every page is packed with fascinating material about a beloved writer, still with us in his 90s. Eller knows his subject's early life and literary career inside out, which is just what you'd expect from the co-founder of the Centre for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University." Michael Dirda, The Guardian Weekly "A richly contextualized interpretation of Ray Bradbury's personal experience, his intellectual and artistic life, and the cultural milieu in which his gifts developed. Becoming Ray Bradbury will be the definitive account of Bradbury's development as a writer." David Mogen, author of Wilderness Visions: The Western Theme in Science Fiction Literature "Jonathan R. Eller traces a wide variety of influences on Ray Bradbury's work, offering a detailed literary and cultural genealogy. Utterly compelling, this book contains a substantial amount of new material that will be invaluable for future scholars of Bradbury's work." Gary K. Wolfe, author of Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature "Articulate and engaging, astonishingly rich in detail, and demonstrating exemplary research and scholarship, Becoming Ray Bradbury will be regarded as the most authoritative biography of Bradbury's life and work for many years." Peter Stockwell, author of Texture: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading
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