by Sam Weller
Housh, Snow Longley, 82, 83
“How I Wrote My Book” (Bradbury), 155–56
Hubbard, L. Ron, 85, 101–2
Huff, John, 63–66, 72
Hull, J. P., 15
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (film), 27–28, 66, 77
Huston, John, 37, 161–62, 177–78, 183, 193, 234, 244, 300, 306
Moby Dick and, 37, 210–12, 214–18, 220–32, 238, 239, 300, 306, 316, 325
RB’s co-writer fracas with, 230–31
RB’s revenge against, 312–13
as vicious practical joker, 223–28, 312
Huston, Walter (grandfather), 227
Huston, Walter Anthony (grandson), 220
Huxley, Aldous, 171–72, 174, 175, 207, 209, 232
“I, Rocket” (Bradbury), 116
Icarus Montgolfier Wright (animated short), 264–66
“Icarus Montgolfier Wright” (Bradbury), 264
Illustrated Man, The (Bradbury), 1, 33, 45, 54, 156, 166–71, 177, 181, 182, 248, 252, 279–80
assembly of, 166–69, 184
collaboration attempt for, 153–54
cover art of, 2, 3, 131, 316
narrative frame for, 170–71, 189
paperback edition of, 187, 203, 204, 285
publication of, 179, 184, 202
“Illustrated Man, The” (Bradbury), 169, 170
Illustrated Man, The (film), 279–80
Imagination!, 87, 88, 92
“Impatient Gulliver Above Our Roofs, An” (Bradbury), 277–79
Infinite Horizons (TV special), 299–300
“In a Season of Calm Weather” (Bradbury), 251, 280
“Injun Summer” (McCutcheon), 5
“Inspired Chicken Motel, The” (Bradbury), 61–62
“Interim” (Bradbury), 141
“Invisible Boy” (Bradbury), 124–25, 130, 135, 188
Invitation to the Dance (film), 259
Ireland, 210, 212, 215, 219–27, 229, 232, 312, 316, 325
RB’s nostalgia for, 239–40, 268
Ireland’s Magic Company, 49
Irwin, James B., 284
“I See You Never” (Bradbury), 54, 112, 133, 146, 151–52, 188
Isherwood, Christopher, 164–65, 169–70, 172–75, 232
I Sing the Body Electric (Bradbury), 61, 283–84, 302, 330
“I Sing the Body Electric” (teleplay), 261, 284, 302
Italy, 225, 228, 230, 231–33, 245, 246–47, 299
It Came from Outer Space (film), 191–92, 259
“It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Hu …” (Bradbury), 102
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (TV special), 285–86
“Jack-in-the-Box” (Bradbury), 144, 236
“Jar, The” (Bradbury), 120, 134
Jazz Age, 39–40, 41
Jerde, Jon, 291–93
Johnson, George Clayton, 264–66
Johnson, Jennet, 82, 239
Johnson, Lyndon, 289
Johnson, Ryerson, 119
Johnson, Wayne L., 53
Jones, Chuck, 285–87
Jones, Myrtle R., 95
“Just This Side of Byzantium” (Bradbury), 33, 52
Kachurka, Patrick, 321, 323, 326, 328, 331
“Kaleidoscope” (Bradbury), 166, 168, 186–87, 327
Karapetian, Gary, 315
Kauffmann, Stanley, 207–8, 214, 236
Keaton, Buster, 89
Kelly, Gene, 259–60, 304
KGAR (radio station), 64, 65–66, 162
“Killer, Come Back to Me” (Bradbury), 139
King, Helen, 153
King, Stephen, 153, 180
King Kong (film), 66, 90
“King of the Gray Spaces” (Bradbury), 116
Kirschner, David, 316
Klynn, Herb, 264–65
Knight, Damon, 43
Kolsrud, Dan, 308
Kuttner, Henry, 86, 101, 104, 116
as RB’s mentor, 103, 107, 109–10
Kyle, David A., 96
Labor Day weekend (1932), 54–60
“Lake, The” (Bradbury), 112–15, 118–20, 134, 137, 184
Lardner, Ring, 54
Larry King (TV show), 303
“Last, the Very Last, The” (Bradbury), 241–42
Laughton, Charles, 269–70
Laurel, Stan, 71, 219–20, 295
“Laurel and Hardy Love Affair, The” (Bradbury), 295
“Lawns of Summer, The” (Bradbury), 240, 292
Lee, Harper, 209
Lee, Stan, 45
Leeds, Martin, 312
Le Guin, Ursula K., 39
Lerner, Alan Jay, 300–301
Let’s All Kill Constance (Bradbury), 322, 324–25, 326
“Let’s Play Poison” (Bradbury), 141
libraries, 195, 290–91
RB’s use of, 9, 42–43, 47–48, 91–92, 108–9, 120–21, 133, 198, 201, 205, 286, 324
Life, 256, 264, 276–79
“Lifeline” (Heinlein), 98
“Lifework of Juan Diaz, The” (Bradbury), 131
Lights Out (TV show), 181
Lincoln, Abraham, 15, 19, 272
“Live forever,” 41, 56–59, 329–30
Lloyd, Norman, 237, 287–88
Loewe, Frederick, 300–301
London, 215, 217–18, 226, 227, 229–30, 246, 282–83, 292–93
“Lonely One, the,” 42
Long After Midnight (Bradbury), 131, 259, 298
“Long Road to Mars, The” (Bradbury), 155
Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 92
“Lorelei of the Red Mist” (Brackett and Bradbury), 109
Los Angeles, Calif., 68–93, 98–112, 130–41, 143–48, 198–99
architecture and design in, 291–93
Fowler Brothers Bookstore in, 136–37
One Book, One City project in, 77–78
police in, 116–18, 199–200
“Ray Bradbury Day” in, 5
theaters in, 70–71, 271
Los Angeles High School, 25, 76, 80–84, 87
Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, 84–88, 91, 92, 98–101, 104–5, 107
Los Angeles Times Book Review, 298–99
Lovecraft, H. P., 99, 101, 103
Lovell, Jim, 276
Lowell, Percival, 158
McCarran, Patrick A., 194, 195
McCarran Act (1950), 194
McCarthy, Joseph, 17, 194–96, 202, 207, 209, 229, 234, 252
McClure, Anna, 138, 139, 148, 162
McClure, Lonal, 139, 141, 148, 162
McClure, Marguerite Susan, see Bradbury, Marguerite McClure
McColloch, Lydia V., 68
McCullers, Carson, 142
McCutcheon, John, 5
McGee, Marty, 250–51, 255
Machineries of Joy, The (Bradbury), 268
McIlwraith, Dorothy, 120
Mademoiselle, 121, 124–25, 130, 135–36, 142, 144, 154, 322
Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 264, 265
magic, magicians, 41–42, 49–50, 56–59, 63, 84, 234, 267–68
“Maiden, The” (Bradbury), 141
Making of the African Queen, The (Hepburn), 316
Maltin, Leonard, 294
Mañana Literary Society, 101–2
Maness, David, 277–79
Mantegna, Joe, 214
“Man Upstairs, The” (Bradbury), 34, 144
Mariano, Nicky, 232
Mars, 1, 7, 35, 103, 154–56, 158–59, 168, 181–82, 202, 203, 253
“Mars is Heaven” (“The Third Expedition”) (Bradbury), 179–80
Martian Chronicles, The (Bradbury), 7, 35, 48, 54, 73, 146, 153, 155–62, 164–66, 168, 179, 184, 202–4, 252–55, 259, 290, 297, 330, 332
British edition of, see Silver Locusts, The
cutting of, 159, 161, 182
Heard and, 173, 175
influence of, 1, 38–39, 187, 213, 277, 292
introductions to, 203, 256
narrative thread of, 18, 155–59, 189, 202, 243
notes and outline for, 103, 155–56
publication of, 162, 164, 177, 182, 256
reviews of, 165, 169–70, 171
sales of, 284–85
screen adaptation considered for, 183, 210, 300–301
Sterling’s stealing from, 253–54, 265
TV adaptation of, 301–2
Martin, Strother, 270
masks, Mexican, 131, 132, 151
Massari, Mark, 310–12
“Meadow, The” (Bradbury), 143, 151, 188, 270
Medicine for Melancholy, A (Bradbury), 34, 251–52, 264, 280
Melville, Herman, 1, 37, 229, 264
“Merry-Go-Round” (Bradbury TV pilot), 259
mescaline, 175–76
Mexico, 124–31, 141, 291
MGM, 69, 178, 259, 286, 287
Miller, Ethel, 55
Miller, Ron, 309
“Million Year Picnic, The” (Bradbury), 154
“Miracle of Rare Device, A” (Bradbury teleplay), 255
“Miracles of Jamie, The” (Bradbury), 124–25, 298
Moberg, Arthurine, 49, 53, 68, 71
Moberg, Esther Marie, see Bradbury, Esther Marie Moberg
Moberg, Gustav, 16, 23
Moberg, Inar, 23–24, 49, 51, 53, 55, 68, 71–72, 141, 239
Moberg, Lester Thomas, 23, 55–60, 87
Moberg, Philip, 23
Moberg, Shirley, 55–56
Moberg, Signey, 23, 98
Moberg, Victoria, 23
Moberg, Vivian, 49, 51–52, 53, 58–59, 68
in California, 68, 71, 72
RB’s relationship with, 53, 55–56, 64, 72
Moby Dick (film), 37, 210–32, 245, 300, 306, 316, 325
casting for, 227
Hollywood premiere of, 238–39
Moby-Dick (Melville), 210–12, 215–19, 221–22, 225
Mogen, David, 32, 124
Mollé Mystery Theater (radio program), 139
Moore, Michael, 330–31
Morey, Miss, 35
Mortimer, John, 307–9
Mr. Electrico, 56–59, 123, 329
Mugnaini, Joseph, 4, 184–86, 188–89, 237, 258–59, 265, 287, 288, 320
mummies, of Guanajuato, 128, 141
Murphy, George, 74
Music Box, The (film), 295
“My Demon, Not Afraid of Happiness” (Bradbury), 38
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 276–78, 299–300
Nation, 206
National Book Foundation, 4, 20, 323–24
National Endowment of the Arts, 331–32
Newman, Paul, 273–74, 280
New Tales of Space and Time (Bradbury), 254
New York City, 293
RB’s trips to, 93–97, 141–44, 152, 154–57, 169, 214–15, 320, 323–24
New Yorker, 121, 136, 142, 146, 151, 188
New York Times, 204, 208, 275
New York World’s Fair (1939), 93, 97
New York World’s Fair (1964), 262–64, 268–69, 272, 284, 296, 297
“Next in Line, The” (Bradbury), 131, 141
Nicholas, Nancy, 319
Nichols, Nichelle, 262
“Night, The” (Bradbury), 135
Nixon, Richard M., 194, 195
Nixon, Tommy, 315
Nolan, Phil, 45
Nolan, William F., 57, 115, 239, 296, 298, 314, 329
“No Man Is an Island” (Bradbury), 195
Nomland, John, 148
“Nothing in the Dark” (Johnson), 265
October Country, The (Bradbury), 122, 236–37, 255, 260, 286
Of Time and the River (Wolfe), 91–92
O. Henry Prize Stories of 1947, The, 144, 177
O. Henry Prize Stories of 1948, The, 151, 163, 177
Once Upon a Time (fairy tale collection), 30
One Book, One City project, 77–78
One More for the Road (Bradbury), 298, 326
“One Timeless Spring” (Bradbury), 124–25, 129, 134, 298
On the Diamond (anthology), 54
Open Book (Huston), 212, 221, 227
Orwell, George, 172, 209
“Other Foot, The” (Bradbury), 54, 166, 168, 178, 182, 201
“Our General Petroleum” (radio show), 75
Outsider and Others, The (Lovecraft), 101
Oz series (Baum), 30, 41, 42, 43, 198
Pandemonium Theatre Company, 7, 270–71, 326
Pangborn, Frank, 75
Pantheon Books, 236
Paramount Studios, 69, 70, 73, 76, 305–6, 307
Paris, 8, 127–28, 215, 216–17, 291, 292–93, 304, 315
Paris Review, 262
Parsons, Jack, 85
Parsons, Louella, 75–76
Paul, Frank R., 43, 95–96
Pearl, The (film), 129
Pearl Harbor, bombing of, 105–6
Peck, Gregory, 227, 230, 239
Peckinpah, Sam, 304–7
“Pedestrian, The” (Bradbury play), 270
“Pedestrian, The” (Bradbury story), 199–200, 201
“Pendulum” (Bradbury and Hasse), 104–5, 106
“Perhaps We Are Going Away” (Bradbury), 169
Phantom of the Opera, The (movie), 34–35, 49
Picasso, Pablo, 281
Picasso Summer (film), 279–82
Pierce, Charles, 11
“Pillar of Fire” (Bradbury), 166
“Piper, The” (Bradbury), 104, 106
plagiarism, 186–87, 190, 253–54, 265
Planet Stories, 107, 108, 109, 154, 155, 156
Plato, 37
Playboy, 198, 229, 240, 281
“Playground, The” (Bradbury), 208
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1, 42, 44, 161, 169–70, 182, 229, 317
RB’s imitation of, 81, 99, 103
“Poems, The” (Bradbury), 134, 141
Pohl, Frederik, 95
Porges, Irwin, 48
Porter, Katherine Anne, 103
Potter, Edwina, 94
Powell, Dick, 75
“Powerhouse” (Bradbury), 144, 151, 163, 188
prejudice and racism, 53–54, 155, 168, 188, 203
Prescott, Orville, 208
Presnell, Don, 250–51, 255
Price, Margaret Evans, 30
Probst, Beth, 222, 226
Probst, Len, 222, 226–27
“Promotion to Satellite” (Bradbury), 115
Proust, Marcel, 6, 7–8, 138, 329
Quicker than the Eye (Bradbury), 298, 319
radio, 1, 40, 42–43, 64, 75–77, 84, 91, 161–62
Burns and Allen, 72, 76–77, 83
Golden Age of, 131, 145
news on, 105–6
RB’s introduction to, 26–27, 68
RB’s start in, 65–66, 83, 162
RB’s work adapted for, 139–40, 179–80, 237
RB’s writing for, 76, 83, 115, 143, 151
Ray Bradbury (Eller and Touponce), 57–58, 134, 203
Ray Bradbury (Johnson), 53
Ray Bradbury (Mogen), 32
Ray Bradbury Companion, The, 296, 298
Ray Bradbury Review, The, 57–58
Ray Bradbury Theater, The (TV show), 310–16
Red Badge of Courage, The (film), 177–78
Reed, Carol, 246
“Remembrance” (Bradbury), 293–94
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 8
“Renaissance Prince and the Baptist Martian, The” (Bradbury), 246–47
Republic, The (Plato), 37
Republican Party, 289, 331
Bradbury’s letter to, 195–96, 252
“Riabouchinska” (Bradbury radio piece), 151
R Is for Rocket (Bradbury), 77, 263–64
Roberts, Garyn, 109
“Rocket, The” (Bradbury), 73
“Rocket Man, The” (Bradbury), 60, 166, 186–87
Rocklynne, Ross, 104
Roddenberry, Gene, 262
Rod Serling (Sander), 265
Rogers, Will, 79
> Roman Review, 83
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 72, 106, 193
Roque, Jacqueline, 281
Roswell, N. Mex., 35–36, 192
Rothman, Milton A., 96
“Run Fast, Stand Still, or The Thing at the Top of the Stairs, or New Ghosts from Old Minds” (Bradbury), 165
Salem Witch Trials, 16–17, 196, 199
Sander, George F., 265
San Diego International ComicCon, 5
Saturday Evening Post, 188, 190, 212, 240
Schary, Dore, 178
Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio, 158
Schorer, Mark, 160
Schulz, Charles, 285–86
Schwartz, Julius (Julie), 95, 96, 107, 329
as RB’s agent, 95, 104, 106, 110, 115, 124, 147, 258
science fiction, 43, 45–47, 91–109, 191–92
conventions on, 93, 95–97
Los Angeles society for, 84–88, 91, 92, 98–101, 104–5, 107
RB mislabeled as writer of, 1–2, 30, 158–59, 166, 170, 171–72, 188, 203, 209, 255, 313
RB’s avoidance of, 8, 176–77
RB’s defense of, 206
RB’s writing of, 38–39, 43, 87, 93, 99, 101–9, 116, 118, 146, 152, 153, 154, 187, 188, 191, 233, 263–64, 313, 332
stigma against, 164, 166, 171–72, 175
see also specific works
Scott, David R., 284
Screenwriters Guild, 231, 234–35
Script, 102
Seidel, Fredrick, 38
Seldes, Tim, 256–57, 260
Serling, Carol, 251, 253
Serling, Rod, 250–51, 253–55, 261, 265, 311
Shakespeare, William, 1, 216, 330, 331
Sheedy, John E., 215
“Shopping for Death” (Bradbury), 237
“Silent Towns, The” (Bradbury), 253–54
Silver, Roy, 281
Silver Locusts, The (Bradbury), 121, 181–83
Simon & Schuster, 129–30, 142, 146, 241, 260–61, 268, 283, 319
S Is for Space (Bradbury), 263–64
Siskel, Gene, 310
Smight, Jack, 279–80
Smith, Charles Rome, 270–71, 326
Smith, Cordwainer, 38
Smith, Rita, 136, 142
Sneak Preview (TV program), 259
Soma, Enrica (Ricki), 161–62, 177, 220–21, 224–25
“Someone in the Rain” (Bradbury), 52
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury), 14, 16, 82, 131, 135, 147, 185, 257–62, 287, 314, 330
Something Wicked This Way Comes (film), 48, 59, 304–10
Soul’s Code, The (Hillman), 38
“Sound of Summer Running, The” (Bradbury), 240–41
Soviet Union, 193, 263
Spaceship Earth, 297–98
space travel, 85, 255–56, 263–64, 268, 276–79, 282–83, 284, 299–300, 327, 332
Spaulding, Luther, 18
Spielberg, Steven, 11