snip ------------------------- Read on. - LRK ------------------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ray_Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury  (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) [1] [4]  was an American  fantasy ,  horror ,  scie nce fiction , and  mystery  writer. Best known for his  dystopian  novel  Fahrenheit 451  (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together