1920: Ray Douglas Bradbury is born Aug. 22 in Waukegan, Ill. 1934: Bradbury’s family moves to Los Angeles. 1939: Bradbury publishes one of his first short stories, “Hollerbochen’s Dilemma” in the fan ...
Four years ago Sam Weller, a onetime New City staff writer who’d written a guidebook, Secret Chicago, was covering the midwest for Publishers Weekly and freelancing stories to the Tribune magazine. He ...