I first read Ray Bradbury in 1966 and discovered that I had heard a radio production of one of his stories on CBS Playhouse when I was living in Taiwan in the late '50's and I listened to Armed Forces Radio on Sunday nights on a transistor radio under my pillow after bedtime. Since then I have read every word he has written. I attended a lecture he gave at Arizona State U. in the late 1980's when I was taking MFA writing classes. He was a rare talent whose prose read like poetry.
I haven't read him much as an adult, but I devoured his books as a teenager and they had a big influence on me. Not quite in encouraging a greater sense of wonder, but in encouraging a sense that the world is not always as it seems and that there are unseen stories behind what we see.
I first read Ray Bradbury in 1966 and discovered that I had heard a radio production of one of his stories on CBS Playhouse when I was living in Taiwan in the late '50's and I listened to Armed Forces Radio on Sunday nights on a transistor radio under my pillow after bedtime. Since then I have read every word he has written. I attended a lecture he gave at Arizona State U. in the late 1980's when I was taking MFA writing classes. He was a rare talent whose prose read like poetry.
I haven't read him much as an adult, but I devoured his books as a teenager and they had a big influence on me. Not quite in encouraging a greater sense of wonder, but in encouraging a sense that the world is not always as it seems and that there are unseen stories behind what we see.