President Obama pays tribute to Ray Bradbury
Tributes have poured in for Ray Bradbury who died Tuesday aged 91.
It was announced yesterday that the iconic science-fiction writer had died late Tuesday in California. US President Barack Obama has led the tributes saying: “His gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world.”
Bradbury is best known for writing Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Through his career he won many awards including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He is survived by his four daughters, Susan Nixon, Ramona Ostergren, Bettina Karapetian, and Alexandra Bradbury, and eight grandchildren. His wife, Marguerite, predeceased him in 2003, after fifty-seven years of marriage.