- born August 22, 1920

- sold newspapers from high school graduation to 1942

- devoted all his time to writing in 1943

- first collection, Dark Carnival, published in 1947

- marries Maggie McClure in 1947

- The Martian Chronicles published in 1950

- Fahrenheit 451 published in 1953

- given the Benjamin Franklin Award in 1954

- Dandelion Wine published in 1957

- Something Wicked This Way Comes  published in 1962

- 1964 New York World's Fair: acts as creative consultant for the United States Pavilion

- I Sing the Body Electric! published in 1969

- worked on and designed for the Spaceship Earth at Epcot Center in 1982

- awarded National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2000

- still living in Los Angeles