Disney sent that article to his friends in New York City who were, at that time, helping build the New York World’s Fair, and they read the introduction and they came to Los Angeles a month later and they knocked on the door, and I opened the door and they said, “Mr. Bradbury, shall we tell you why we are here?”
I said, “Why?”
“We are here to give you a fifty-million-dollar building.” I said, “What!? Come in, come in!”
— the Paris Review
This essay appears in Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, out this month. Reprinted with permission of Melville House.
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) is the author of twenty-seven novels, including Fahrenheit 451and The Martian Chronicles, and more than six hundred short stories. Bradbury won many awards throughout his lifetime, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Sam Weller is the author of The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury andListen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, and the coeditor of Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, which won a Bram Stoker Award. Weller is an associate professor in the department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.
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In the light of what happened to his own house after he died, his reaction to Sherlock Holmes' house back then is ironic.
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