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CHe has been nominated for an Academy Award (for his animated film //Icarus Montgolfier Wright//), and has won an Emmy Award (for his teleplay of //The Halloween// Tree He became a full-time writer in 1943 contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, //Dark Carnival//, in 1947 publication of //The Martian Chronicles// in 1950, which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, and the unintended consequences. Next came //The Illustrated Man// and then, in 1953, //Fahrenheit 451//, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece, a scathing indictment of censorship set in a future world where the written word is forbidden. In an attempt to salvage their history and culture, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy as their books are burned by the totalitarian state. Other works include //The October Country//, //Dandelion Wine//, //A Medicine for Melancholy//, //Something Wicked This Way Comes//, //I Sing the Body Electric!//, //Quicker Than the Eye//, and //Driving Blind//. In all, Bradbury has published more than thirty books, close to 600 short stories, and numerous poems, essays, and plays. included in four //Best American Short Story// collections. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. In November 2000, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters was conferred upon Mr. Bradbury at the 2000 National Book Awards Ceremony in New York City. He has been nominated for an Academy Award (for his animated film //Icarus Montgolfier Wright//), and has won an Emmy Award (for his teleplay of //The Halloween Tree)//======