Ray Bradbury: Biography and Themes

Which author wrote, "Sound of Thunder?"

Which author wrote, "Second Coming?"

Which author wrote, "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"

Which author wrote, "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death?"

Which author wrote, "Hay for the Horses?"

Which author wrote, "The Terrorist, He Watches?"

Which author is a Zen Buddhist that is still living?

Which author is a mountaineer?

Which author is an environmental activist and deep ecology philosopher?

Which author worked as a logger (lumberjack) and mariner?

Which author was part of the "Beat Generation"?

What was the Beat Generation?

Did the Beat Generation support or protest equal civil rights?

Which generation involved Zen Buddhism and some Native-American culture-based writers?

What was anti-war and had strong ecological views (respect for environment, had environmental movement)?

Who went to Reed College in Oregon?

Who lived at UCLA Berkeley while studying in the university's Asian language program in California?

Who moved to Japan and lived in Kyoto for the next dozen years?

Who studied and meditated at the Daitoku-ji Zen monastery in Kyoto?

Who's style tends to reflect the philosophy of (asian) culture?

Who's style in general has prose, poetry, books, and nature essays?

Which author got a Pulitzer Prize for Turtle Island (Collection)?

Which author got the Bollingen prize AND the American Academy of Arts and Letters award?

Which author got the Guggenheim Foundation fellowship AND the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson prize from Poetry?

Which author got the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Times AND the Shelley Memorial Award?

Which author studied Buddhism?

Which author currently lectures as a professor of English at the University of California, Davis for ecology and environment?

Which author continues to fight for peace, environmental awareness, and freedom for nuclear weaponry?

Which author came from a long line of Russian nobility?

Whose fortunes dwindled by their birth?

Who's mother died when he was two and father when he was eight?

Who's aunt who raised them when they were 13 died (as well as the parents)?

Who only studied three years of Turco-Arabic literature before quitting?

Who went to the University of Kazan to study Turco-Arabic literature?

Who had drinking and gambling binges?

Who joined the army with their brother and traveled the Caucasus Mountains?

Who began writing while in the army?

Who married Sofia Behrs, forcing her to read all of their diaries before their marriage?

Who influenced their wife (Sofia Behrs) to assist their writing career and had 13 children with Sofia?

Whose fiction grew originally from their diaries- where they tried to understand their own feelings and actions so as to control them?

Who read widely fiction and philosophy? (Plato and rousseau, Dickens and Sterne; Goethe, Stendhal, Thackeray, and George Eliot)

Whose themes revolved around poverty and social/moral consciousness?

Whose style had realistic detail and a variety of psychological analysis?

Whose style had a strong sense of settings based on their military travels?

Which author was a social/moral philosopher dedicated to eliminating human suffering?

Which author freed serfs (agricultural laborers) living on their estate and simply lived as a peasant?

Who gave away all their possessions to own nothing and joined the monastery (where monks or nuns work) but died on the way there?

Who wrote War and Peace?

Who wrote Anna Karenina?

Who was Polish and had a father who was a count?

Who moved to Krakow, Poland where they lived their life when their father died?

Who was educated in underground classes when WWII broke out?

Who went to Jagiellonian University where they studied Polish literature then switched to sociology?

Who studied Polish literature then switched to sociology?

Who quit their studies without a degree because of financial issues?

Who become a railroad employee to avoid being deported to Germany?

Who began writing for newspapers and was a secretary of a magazine when married from 1948-54?

Whose first book was supposed to be published in but didn't pass censorship?

Who ran their own book review column?

Who was an editor of a monthly periodical?

Who translated French literature to Polish literature?

Whose style supported socialist themes at first but later renounced earlier political work? (Kruschev's Thaw in '50s)

Who's style was called Socialist Realism under Stalin at FIRST!? :D

Who often wrote about philosophical themes and poems about war and terrorism?

Who wrote often in unusual points of view with wit, irony, an deceiving simplicity?

Who wrote Photograph of 9/11?

Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and never had children?

Whose father would pay them coins for writing poetry? (which was how they got into poetry in the first place)

The Chaos Theory is another term for the...

Who first thought up the Chaos Theory?

Who was born in Illinois and used their birthcity (Waukegan, IL) as inspiration for a small town in their fiction?

Whose mom was a Swedish immigrant?

Whose dad was an electrical lineman for the power company?

Who moved to LA for High School where they first published stories in their Highschool magazine?

Who worked odd jobs to support writing on the side?

Who published short stories in magazines?

Who was medically rejected from WW2?

Whose style broke away from traditional sci-fi of the time?

Whos style was poetic, detailed, symbolic, nostalgic?

Whose themes created myths?

Who had sci-fi themes: technological innovation or scientific assumption that develops a story?

Sci-fi themes of ray bradbury:

Who wrote Fahrenheit 451?

Who wrote Dark Carnival?

Who wrote Martian Chronicles?

Who wrote Dandelion Wine?

Who wrote Something Wicked this Way Comes?

Who won the National Medal of the Arts? (and was a pulitzer prize winner)

Who was Irish and lived in London for 14 Years?

Who moved to Harold's Cross, Ireland and later Howth, Ireland?

Who was an average student that was tutored at home?

Who was Fascinated by Biology and Zoology?

Who moved to Dublin to study Law?

Who switched to Art in London after changing their mind about studying law?

Who was a member of "Ghost Club"?

Who was the President of Irish National Theatre Society?

Who was a member of "Irish Republican Brotherhood"?

Who was appointed to Irish Senate in 1922?

Who was a symbolist poet that used allusive imagery in their style?

Whose style incorporated symbolic structures and traditional forms of poetry?

Beat Generation:

Who moved to Krakow, Poland where they livedf for the rest of their life when their father died?

Is Gary Snyder a Zen Buddhist who is still living?

Is Gary Snyder a mountaineer?

Is Gary Snyder an environmental activist and deep ecology philosopher?

Did Gary Snyder work as a logger (lumberjack) and mariner?

Was Gary Snyder part of the "Beat Generation"?

The Beat Generation was a group of reactionary writers from which decade?

Did the Beat Generation support equal civil rights?

Which generation was anti-war and had strong ecological views?

Did Leo Tolstoy have drinking and gambling binges?

Did Leo Tolstoy join the army with their brother and traveled the Caucasus Mountains?

Did Leo Tolstoy begin writing while in the army?

Did Leo Tolstoy marry Sofia Behrs, forcing her to read all of their diaries before their marriage?

Did Leo Tolstoy influence their wife (Sofia Behrs) to assist their writing career and had 13 children with Sofia?

Did Leo Tolstoy's fiction grow originally from their diaries- where they tried to understand their own feelings and actions so as to control them?

Did Leo Tolstoy read widely fiction and philosophy?

Whose style supported socialist themes at first but later renounced earlier political work?

Whose father would pay them coins for writing poetry?

Was Ray Bradbury medically rejected from WW2?

Who won the National Medal of the Arts?

Was W.B. Yeats Irish and did he live in London for 14 years?

Was W.B. Yeats an average student who was tutored at home?

Was W.B. Yeats fascinated by Biology and Zoology?

Was W.B. Yeats a member of the "Ghost Club"?

Was W.B. Yeats a member of "Irish Republican Brotherhood"?