American author Ray Bradbury died in Los Angeles on June 5, 2012 in Los Angeles. The science fiction writer became famous during the Cold War in 1950 with "The Martian Chronicles", a series of short stories talking about capitalisme and racisme using the colonisation of Mars by the planet earth.
Ray Bradbury has published over 500 books including the famous "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) inspired by nazis auto-da-fé and turned into a movie by François Truffaut in 1996.