Raymond Douglas "Ray" Bradbury, born August 22, 1920 - died June 5, 2012, was an American writer and screenwriter. He wrote in various fields of literature, such as fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery. Among his most famous works are the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953), and his collections of science fiction and horror, and Martian histories (1950). The Illustrated Man (1951), Celebrate the Thrill of the Body (1969), Bradbury was one of the most famous American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. , The White Whale (1992). Bradbury has received numerous awards, including the 2007 Pulitzer for Special Awards and Citations, and has written and has been a consultant for screenplays for films and television scripts, such as Moby Dick and From Outer Space. Much of his work has been adapted for comic books, television, and films. Upon his death in 2012, the New York Times called him "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".