Who wrote the novel 'Fahrenheit 451' in 1953?
"blocking (an ISP, DNS provider, caching system, etc.), not the legal authority mandating the block. At an IETF hackathon, participants used a web crawler to discover that several implementations misunderstood this header and gave the legal authority instead. HTTP 451 In computer networking, HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons is an error status code of the HTTP protocol to be displayed when the user requests a resource which cannot be served for legal reasons, such as a web page censored by a government. The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel ""Fahrenheit 451"", in which books"
"Urged by a publisher at Ballantine Books to double the length of his story to make a novel, Bradbury returned to the same typing room and expanded his work into ""Fahrenheit 451"", again taking just nine days. The fixup was published by Ballantine in 1953. Bradbury has supplemented the novel with various front and back matter, including a 1979 coda, a 1982 afterword, a 1993 foreword, and several introductions. The first U.S. printing was a paperback version from October 1953 by The Ballantine Publishing Group. Shortly after the paperback, a hardback version was released that included a special edition of"
"has been the subject of interpretations focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote ""Fahrenheit 451"" because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature. In 1954, ""Fahrenheit 451"" won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. It later won the Prometheus ""Hall of"
"Bradbury's 1953 novel ""Fahrenheit 451"", a dystopian view of the future United States, drawing an analogy between the autoignition temperature of paper and the date of the September 11 attacks; one of the film's taglines was ""The Temperature at Which Freedom Burns"". The film debuted at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and received a 20-minute standing ovation, among the longest standing ovations in the festival's history. The film was also awarded the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest award. The film is the highest grossing documentary of all time. The movie begins by suggesting that friends and political allies of George"
"""Fahrenheit 451"". The rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy's hearings hostile to accused communists, beginning in 1950, deepened Bradbury's contempt for government overreach. The year HUAC began investigating Hollywood is often considered the beginning of the Cold War, as in March 1947, the Truman Doctrine was announced. By about 1950, the Cold War was in full swing, and the American public's fear of nuclear warfare and communist influence was at a feverish level. The stage was set for Bradbury to write the dramatic nuclear holocaust ending of ""Fahrenheit 451"", exemplifying the type of scenario feared by many Americans of the time."
"the late 1950s, Bradbury recounted:In writing the short novel ""Fahrenheit 451"", I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries,"
"in 2004, she sold the bookstore after which she became partner at University Press Books in Berkeley, a position she held until her death on July 12, 2017. Fahrenheit 451 Books Fahrenheit 451 Books was a bookstore, formerly located on 509 South Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, California. It was described by the ""Los Angeles Times"" as a ""literary landmark"" of the region. It was established in 1968 by Dennis Madison and sold in 1972 to Gordon & Evie Wilson. In the early 1970s, the bookstore was marred in legal battles with the City of Laguna Beach, charged with selling"
"Groff Conklin placed the novel ""among the great works of the imagination written in English in the last decade or more."" The ""Chicago Sunday Tribune""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s August Derleth described the book as ""a savage and shockingly prophetic view of one possible future way of life"", calling it ""compelling"" and praising Bradbury for his ""brilliant imagination"". Over half a century later, Sam Weller wrote, ""upon its publication, ""Fahrenheit 451"" was hailed as a visionary work of social commentary."" Today, ""Fahrenheit 451"" is still viewed as an important cautionary tale about conformity and the evils of government censorship. When the novel was first"
"Los Angeles, with a headstone that reads ""Author of Fahrenheit 451"". On February 6, 2015, ""The New York Times"" reported that the house that Bradbury lived and wrote in for 50 years of his life, at 10265 Cheviot Drive in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, California, had been demolished by the buyer, architect Thom Mayne. Bradbury died in Los Angeles, California, on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, after a lengthy illness. Bradbury's personal library was willed to the Waukegan Public Library, where he had many of his formative reading experiences. ""The New York Times"" called Bradbury ""the writer"
"Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of"
"are marked with a ""(CC)"" and those from ""The Other Mary Shelley"" with an ""(OMS)"". Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter"
"book and released as an album in 2007. The title alludes to ""Fahrenheit 451"" by its metric equivalent, ""signifying the writer destroying his rough drafts"". In book 14 of the ""Guardians of Ga'Hoole"" series by Kathryn Lasky, published in 2008, Braithe states that the name of the Place of Living Books, also called ""Brad"", comes from an author's name: ""The author's full name is not known. We call him Ray Brad. We think it's only scraps of his name but what is important is that ""he wrote about book burning"""", thus referencing ""Fahrenheit 451"". Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 is a"
"Fahrenheit 451 Books Fahrenheit 451 Books was a bookstore, formerly located on 509 South Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, California. It was described by the ""Los Angeles Times"" as a ""literary landmark"" of the region. It was established in 1968 by Dennis Madison and sold in 1972 to Gordon & Evie Wilson. In the early 1970s, the bookstore was marred in legal battles with the City of Laguna Beach, charged with selling obscene literature including early underground comics by R. Crumb and others of that period including Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevely who were friends of Madison, Chevely's former husband."
"Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter Mary was born, Mary was raised by Godwin, who was able to provide his daughter"
"Frankenstein Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in 1823. Shelley travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim, which is away from Frankenstein"
"German reviewers maintained the complexity of the plot, the nice graphics and the large number of scenes and non-fictional characters. In 1993, a German study about the history of interactive fiction recognized that Fahrenheit 451 is a highly complex, interactive computer fairy tale (""hochkomplexes, interaktives Computermärchen""). The adventure is a play with classic literature quotations and at the same time it is a game with the narrator and the player himself (""gleichsam Literaturliteratur, ein Spiel mit Klassikern und zugleich mit dem Erzähler, dem Spieler selbst""). Fahrenheit 451 (video game) Fahrenheit 451 is a computer strategy game released in 1984 based"
"leading members were the major fantasy novelists; J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Lewis is known for ""The Screwtape Letters"" (1942), ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" and ""The Space Trilogy"", while Tolkien is best known as the author of ""The Hobbit"" (1937), ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". Among important writers of genre fiction in the second half of the twentieth-century are thriller writer Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond 007. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953). In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of"
"(2003) reports that the title ""1984"" was chosen simply as an inversion of the year 1948, the year in which it was being completed, and that the date was meant to give an immediacy and urgency to the menace of totalitarian rule. Throughout its publication history, ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" has been either banned or legally challenged, as subversive or ideologically corrupting, like the dystopian novels ""We"" (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, ""Brave New World"" (1932) by Aldous Huxley, ""Darkness at Noon"" (1940) by Arthur Koestler, ""Kallocain"" (1940) by Karin Boye and ""Fahrenheit 451"" (1953) by Ray Bradbury. Some writers consider the Russian"
"Hall of Fame. Other Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were"
"Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 or 13 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy, and satire, and a trained physician. Lem's books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 45 million copies. From the 1950s to 2000s, he published many books, both science fiction and philosophical/futurological. He is best known as the author of the 1961 novel ""Solaris"", which has been made into a feature film three times. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. Lem's works"
"Spark of Life (novel) Spark of Life is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which appeared both in German (as ""Der Funke Leben"") and in English in 1952. The novel is set in the fictional Mellern concentration/labor camp during the Holocaust. 509, whose real name is Friedrich Koller, is a political prisoner in a German concentration camp. He is about 45 to 50 years old. For ten years, he has persevered in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the"
"Silence"" (1952) posits a post-nuclear holocaust America in which the eastern half of the country has been largely destroyed and its surviving inhabitants infected with a plague and barred from crossing the Mississippi River to try to find refuge in the unscathed western part of the country. A nuclear war occurs at the end of Bradbury's dystopian futuristic novel ""Fahrenheit 451"" (1953), with the outcasts who had fled an unidentified American city to escape a despotic government which burned books in order control the public by limiting knowledge left alive to re-establish society. John Wyndham's 1955 novel ""The Chrysalids"" (United"
"In thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1962), and nine short story works. In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of spy novels who depicted a shadowy world of espionage and counter-espionage, and his best known novel ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), is often regarded"
"Current Michigan Senator Carl Levin denounced McCarthyism, stating, ""To attack people personally for their political beliefs and to browbeat them for asserting their rights, is no longer something which people are willingly engaged in…"" In ""Issues of Freedom in American Libraries"" (1964), Moore explores different circumstances of censorship in the United States. Moore notes the popularity in the Soviet Union of Ray Bradbury's book ""Fahrenheit 451"". This book often came under attack in the US during the McCarthy era because it was believed to be a direct criticism of McCarthyism. This initially made the book quite popular in the USSR"
"married Narendrakumar Aditram Chevli, which whom she lived briefly in Mumbai. After moving to the U.S. she had two daughters, Neela (born 1957) and Shanta (born 1959). She and her children moved to California with her mother in 1961. She ran Fahrenheit 451 Books with her husband Dennis Madison in Dana Point, and then from Laguna Beach from 1968. The store specialized in new age literature. Chevli was the designated owner of the store because she already had a reseller license in California. Fahrenheit 451 carried the new underground comix, which impressed Chevli with their anarchic spirit, but she was"
"Long Beach Philosophy Association co-sponsored 1984's The Future of Freedom Conference. Lawrence Samuels' Athena Graphics in Santa Ana provided graphics. [File:Beau clean up of FOF Con 1985 Programme.pdf|thumb|Future of Freedom Conference 1895]] With science fiction author ""Fahrenheit 451"", Ray Bradbury, highlighting the event, the 1985 FOF Conference was held at the Griswold Inn in Fullerton, California on Oct. 25, 26, 27 with ""300 or so faithful libertarians. Main speakers included the following: Karl Hess, speechwriter for Senator Barry Goldwater and market anarchist; Jeff Riggenbach, journalist, author, and broadcaster; Scott McKeown, West Coast director of the Guardian Angels, a civilian crime-fighting"
"54 (novel) 54 is a novel by Wu Ming first published in Italian in 2002. Wu Ming is a collective of five authors founded in 2000. The members were formerly associated with the Luther Blissett Project, and four of them wrote the international best-selling novel ""Q"". The novel is set in Italy, former Yugoslavia, Britain and the US during the year 1954. It has been translated into several languages. All of the editions keep the original copyright statement, which allows for non-commercial reproduction of the book. The novel presents a vast multitude of characters and sub-plots. It's 1954, Joseph Stalin"
"description reads: ""A remarkably versatile scientist, structural chemist Linus Pauling (1901–1994) won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the nature of the chemical bond linking atoms into molecules. His work in establishing the field of molecular biology; his studies of hemoglobin led to the classification of sickle cell anemia as a molecular disease."" The other scientists on this sheet of stamps included Gerty Cori, biochemist, Edwin Hubble, astronomer, and John Bardeen, physicist. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced on May 28, 2008 that Pauling would be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located"
"was portrayed by Alec Guinness in the 1992 television adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play ""Tales from Hollywood"". Heinrich Mann Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (27 March 1871 – 11 March 1950) was a German novelist who wrote works with strong social themes. His numerous criticisms of the growth of fascism forced him to flee for his life after the Nazis came to power in 1933. Born in Lübeck, as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns, he was the elder brother of novelist Thomas Mann. His father came from an affluent family of grain merchants"
"Fondly Fahrenheit ""Fondly Fahrenheit"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester, first published in the August 1954 issue of ""The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"". A rich playboy, James Vandaleur, and his expensive ""multiple aptitude android"" have become two aspects of a single insane murderous personality. Vandaleur's father is dead, having lost the family fortune, and Vandaleur only has the android which, if it works correctly, can bring in more than enough income to support him in the manner to which he had become accustomed. However, the android becomes erratic when his immediate environment exceeds"
"the lead in the 1958 television pilot ""Tales of Frankenstein"". He also appeared in quite a number of international films, such as ""Fahrenheit 451"" (1966) directed by François Truffaut. His final performance was again as a Nazi for the BBC in the 1988 ""Doctor Who"" serial ""Silver Nemesis"" in which he agreed to appear because the recording coincided with the Wimbledon Championships, which he wanted to watch. He died in his home at Châteauneuf-Grasse in the South of France in 1989. Anton Diffring Anton Diffring (20 October 1916 – 19 May 1989) was a German character actor known for his"
"Bluetooth headsets from ""Fahrenheit 451"", and the concepts of artificial intelligence within ""I Sing the Body Electric"". On June 6, 2012, in an official public statement from the White House Press Office, President Barack Obama said: Numerous Bradbury fans paid tribute to the author, noting the influence of his works on their own careers and creations. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg stated that Bradbury was ""[his] muse for the better part of [his] sci-fi career... On the world of science fiction and fantasy and imagination he is immortal"". Writer Neil Gaiman felt that ""the landscape of the world we live in would"
"services to literature and philanthropy. J. K. Rowling Joanne Rowling , ( ""rolling""; born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film producer, television producer and screenwriter, best known for writing the ""Harry Potter"" fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. They have also been the basis for a film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films in the series. Born in"