Editing Ray Bradbury (section)

===Death===
Bradbury died in Los Angeles, California, on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, after a lengthy illness.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/06/showbiz/ray-bradbury-obit/index.html| title=Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury dies|publisher=CNN|date=June 6, 2012| access-date=June 6, 2012| first=Alan|last=Duke }}</ref> His personal library was willed to the [[Waukegan Public Library]], where he had many of his formative reading experiences.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130617/news/706179846/|date=June 17, 2013|work=Daily Herald|title=Ray Bradbury book collection going to Waukegan library|author=Russell Lissau}}</ref>

The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' credited him with the ability "to write lyrically and evocatively of lands an imagination away, worlds he anchored in the here and now with a sense of visual clarity and small-town familiarity".<ref name="latimes obit">{{cite news|title=Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=June 6, 2012| access-date=June 6, 2012|first=Lynell|last=George|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ray-bradbury-20120607-story.html}}</ref> His grandson, Danny Karapetian, said Bradbury's works had "influenced so many artists, writers, teachers, scientists, and it's always really touching and comforting to hear their stories".<ref name="BBC dies">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18345350|title=Author Ray Bradbury dies, aged 91 |work=BBC News|date=June 6, 2012|access-date=June 6, 2012 }}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' noted several modern-day technologies that Bradbury had envisioned much earlier, such as the idea of [[automatic teller machine|banking ATMs]] and [[headphones|earbuds and Bluetooth headsets]] in ''Fahrenheit 451'', and the concepts of [[artificial intelligence]] in ''[[I Sing the Body Electric (Bradbury)|I Sing the Body Electric]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/dreams-of-ray-bradbury-ten-predictions-that-came-true/2012/06/06/gJQAqbs9IV_story.html|title=Dreams of Ray Bradbury: 10 predictions that came true|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=June 6, 2012|access-date=June 6, 2012|first=Hayley|last=Tsukayama }}</ref>