American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, Ray Bradbury's work has won him fame and top awards in literature. His reputation as a leading writer of science fiction was established with the publication of, The Martian Chronicles, and then his best known work, Fahrenheit 451. His work has been honored in many ways, but perhaps the most unusual was when an Apollo astronaut named the Dandelion Crater on the Moon after Bradbury's novel, Dandelion Wine. Outside of his literary achievements, he was the idea consultant for the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. He also conceived the metaphors for Spaceship Earth, EPCOT, Disney World, and he contributed to the conception of the Orbitron space ride at Euro-Disney.
Ray Bradbury