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Ray Bradbury, born in 1920, sold newspapers after he graduated from high school. At the same time he created his own magazine and wrote short stories. His first money-making story was published when he was 20 years old. Fahrenheit 451, one of his best-known novels, was published in 1953. It was originally published as a short story, and Bradbury later expanded it to its current length. Donald Watt says: "On the whole, Fahrenheit 451 comes out as a distinctive contribution to the speculative literature of our times, because in its multiple variations on its fundamental symbol, it demonstrates that dystopian fiction need not exclude the subtlety of poetry" .Bradbury is recognized as a groundbreaker in making science fiction a respected literary genre. Fahrenheit 451 revolves around three main characters which are Montag, Faber, and Beatty; it tells how Montag, Faber, and Beatty's struggle revolves around the tension between knowledge and...

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