"Ray Bradbury is one of those rare     
individuals whose writing has changed    
the way people think. His more than five    
hundred published works -- short stories,  
novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, 
and verse -- exemplify the American 
imagination at its most creative.

Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books are part of this Sampler. They include: THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES [1950], THE ILLUSTRATED MAN [1951], FAHRENHEIT 451 [1953] and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES [1962], and are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. The rest of the Sampler contains: Dandelion Wine [1957], Long After Midnight [1976], Graveyard for Lunatics [1990], From the Dust Returned [2001], One More for the Road [2002], and Let's All Kill Constance [2004]  

In recognition of his stature in the world of literature and the impact he has had on so many for so many years, Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, an the National Medal of Arts in 2004."
-- from raybradbury.com/about.html

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. Joining the LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library System, Friends of the Library and The Knight Foundation.