Ron Hogan, the editor of Beatrice, recently reviewed Jonathan Eller’s Becoming Ray Bradbury for Shelf Awareness.  This week Ron recommends the book to his Beatrice readership.

“I had a great time with Eller’s biography; he’s extremely rigorous about tracking the details of Bradbury’s literary development without getting bogged down in an academic prose style. So my interest never flagged, and though I knew the rough outcome—I read Fahrenheit 451 in junior high, too—I wanted to hear all the details. And I really want the sequel that Eller ought to write, since he ends the story just as Bradbury is about to head off to Ireland to write a screenplay of Moby DIck for John Huston.”