![]() In the basement of Powell Library, he found rows of typewriters, which could be rented for 20 cents an hour. His house was noisy because of his newborn child, so he looked elsewhere. The author wanted to get started, but he needed more than an idea - he needed a place to write. “Since I’m a library person, having educated myself in the libraries of Los Angeles, all of this concerned me, and the older I got, the more I wanted to write stories about libraries and books,” Bradbury wrote in UCLA Magazine in 2002. The idea of burning books was one that Bradbury was tinkering with for a while after hearing about how Stalin and Hitler burned books. The firefighter eventually becomes disenchanted with his involvement in destroying knowledge and joins a resistance effort to preserve the books. Now comes a new HBO adaptation.īut many who love the story might not know that its beginnings are linked to the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library.įahrenheit’s story centers on a firefighter in a dystopian world, where books are burned to prevent knowledge. There was a British film version in 1966, a play in 1979 and a video game in 1984. ![]() ![]() ![]() Author Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 tells such a powerful story that it never ceases to inspire adaptations. ![]()
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