Question: Who wrote the 1953 novel about a postliterate society?
Context: Fahrenheit 451 is a 1966 British Dystopian science fiction drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, and Cyril Cusack.  Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury, the film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future in which a fireman, whose duty it is to burn all literature, becomes a fugitive for reading.  This was Truffaut's first colour film as well as his only English-language film.  At the 1966 Venice Film Festival, "Fahrenheit 451" was nominated for the Golden Lion. Against the Fall of Night is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.  Originally appearing as a novella in the November, 1948 issue of the magazine "Startling Stories", it was revised and expanded in 1951 and published in book form in 1953 by Gnome Press.  It was later expanded and revised again and published in 1956 as "The City and the Stars".  A later edition includes another of Clarke's early works and is titled "The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night".  In 1990, with Clarke's approval, Gregory Benford wrote a sequel titled "Beyond the Fall of Night", which continues the story arc of the 1953 novel.  It is generally printed with the original novel as a single volume. A postliterate society is a hypothetical society in which multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read or write, is no longer necessary or common.  The term appears as early as 1962 in Marshall McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy".  Many science-fiction societies are postliterate, as in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", Dan Simmons' novel "Ilium", and Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story". John Harris (18 October 1916 – 7 March 1991) was a British author.  He published a series of crime novels featuring the character Inspector Pel, and war books.  He wrote with his own name, and also with the pseudonyms of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy.  His 1953 novel "The Sea Shall Not Have Them" was the basis for a feature film of the same name in 1954.  He was the father of Juliet Harris, who published more Inspector Pel books under the name of Juliet Hebden. Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1953.  It is regarded as one of his best works.  The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.  The book's tagline explains the title: "Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns..." The Burglar is a 1957 crime thriller film noir released by Columbia Pictures, based on the 1953 novel of the same name by David Goodis (who also wrote the script).  The picture stars Dan Duryea in the titular role and Jayne Mansfield. The Unconquered was a 1953 novel by Ben Ames Williams.  It was Williams' final novel, completed in January 1953 less than a month before his death.  It is a sequel to his "House Divided". Cross Damon was a fictional character from Richard Wright's 1953 novel "The Outsider".  Cross Damon was viewed as an "outsider" who did not attempt to become a product of the established culture of American society.  Cross was considered a complete opposite to Bigger Thomas, another character created by Richard Wright in his novel "Native Son".  He also ridicules Communist techniques and lives according to the principles of free choice.  Cross Damon committed murder in a completely different spirit than Bigger Thomas.  He acts as an individual who is free to do whatever his habits and desires lead him to do.  His is not a victim of social and environmental pressures outside his control.  In many ways, Cross Damon resembles Meursault, the hero of Albert Camus novel "The Stranger".  Both men lived outside of any involvement with common humanity and paid no attention to social mores. The Deep Six is a 1953 novel by Martin Dibner (1911-1992) describing the experiences of a group of U.S. Navy sailors fighting in the Aleutian Islands Campaign in 1943 during World War II.  The novel, based on the author's experiences serving in the light cruiser USS "Richmond" during the same campaign, is written in a terse Hemingwayesque style and was a contemporary of Nicholas Monsarrat's novel "The Cruel Sea" and "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk.  The novel reached the "New York Times" Bestseller List for the week of September 6, 1953, ranked 16th in sales, and appeared six times on the list until October 18, fluctuating between 14th and 16th. The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery is a 2000 made-for-television film based on the 1953 novel by Rex Stout.  Set in 1950s Manhattan, the A&E Network production stars Maury Chaykin as the heavyweight detective genius Nero Wolfe, and Timothy Hutton as Wolfe's assistant, Archie Goodwin, narrator of the Nero Wolfe stories.  Veteran screenwriter Paul Monash adapted the 1953 novel by Rex Stout; Bill Duke directed.  When it first aired on the A&E Network March 5, 2000, "The Golden Spiders" was seen in 3.2 million homes, making it the fourth most-watched A&E original movie ever.  Its success led to the A&E original series, "A Nero Wolfe Mystery" (2001–2002).
Answer: Ray Bradbury