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This interview originally appeared in the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of Public Libraries. Brendan Dowling interviewed Ray Bradbury via telephone in May 2002. Novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet Ray Bradbury is the author of more than five hundred published works. His best-known novels— including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Dandelion Wine—are all still widely read today. A lifelong fan of movies, Bradbury wrote the screenplays for John Huston’s adaptation of Moby Dick as well as It Came from Outer Space and The Beast from Twenty Thousand Fathoms. Bradbury continues his prodigious output, with four new books scheduled to be published this year alone. Public Libraries: You’ve written in so many formats—novels, short stories, poems, and screenplays. How do you decide which format to tell the story in? RB: I don’t decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play,

I Graduated from the Library: An Interview with Ray Bradbury - Public Libraries Online A Publication of the Public Library Association Public Libraries Online I Graduated from the Library: An Interview with Ray Bradbury by Brendan Dowling on May 20, 2013 This interview originally appeared in the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of Public Libraries . Brendan Dowling interviewed Ray Bradbury via telephone in May 2002. Novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet Ray Bradbury is the author of more than five hundred published works. His best-known novels— including Fahrenheit 451 , The Martian Chronicles , Somethin

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