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Article: A suitable storyteller; At 82, sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury still spends every day stitching tales.(VARIETY / FREETIME)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 25, 2003
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Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer
More often than not, Ray Bradbury's name appears with the descriptive modifier "science-fiction writer." It's a fair characterization, given the fame he accumulated with such works as "The Martian Chronicles," "The Illustrated Man" and "Fahrenheit 451."
Bradbury's imagination, though, is too large to be defined by a label. Winner of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2000, he has published more than 500 works - mystery novels, fantasy plays, screenplays, essays, short stories - and continues at 82 to churn out 3,000 to 4,000 words by noon each day.
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