Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

  Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, was born on the 22nd of August 1920, in Waukegan, to a family that was, with no exaggerations, living on books. He was self-educated, which means that all of the knowledge he had was from books and a mass majority of libraries that he visited on a daily basis. He heard about the heartless act of burning books- which to him, was the only reliable source of knowledge in all aspects of life, he felt the need to educate his society about the effects of living in a book-free world can have on us, hence, he wrote Fahrenheit 451-a book that depicts exactly that. Throughout his life, he was influenced by a myriad of factors that lead to him writing such a deep and futuristic novel.