Ray Bradbury Author of 'Fahrenheit 451' Dies at age 91
Author Ray Bradbury, who wrote "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles" has died. He was 91.
The writer's daughter Alexandra Bradbury told the news to the Associated Press Wednesday without providing further details.
Bradbury had suffered a stroke in recent years and had to use a wheelchair.
He was consider by many to be the greatest science-fiction writer of the 20th century. Many of his works were adapted into television shows or films, were translated in more than 40 languages and sold tens of millions of copies around the world.
Bradbury produced more than five hundred published works including short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts and poems.
He shot to international fame after publishing "The Martial Chronicles" in 1950.
Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, an the National Medal of Arts in 2004.
He was also given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and an asteroid is named in his honor "9766 Bradbury."
Bradbury also won an Emmy Award for his work as a writer on "The Halloween Three."
