Thank You, Ray Bradbury
Most people have heard the story of how Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 on a pay typewriter in the basement of the UCLA library. I’ve always loved that story, and it makes me feel very proud to work in an industry that inadvertently contributed to the creation of such a great work of literature. Then I feel like I’m taking a bit too much credit.
Ray Bradbury has been a frequent speaker at libraries and library advocate, 
now he’s taking that one step further, and trying actively to save the H.P. Wright library, which may close due to budget shortfalls. “Libraries raised me,” Mr. Bradbury said. “I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
He can still be found regularly at the Los Angeles Public Library branch in Koreatown, which he visited often as a teenager.
New York Times has the full story of how 90-year-old Bradbury fills the rest of his days, and how he feels about the internet.
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