![]() ![]() ![]() A short story festival has put his works on a literary pedestal. Ray Bradbury Park was christened in his honor. His is one of five stars on its Walk of Fame. Waukegan has made Bradbury part of its fabric by repeatedly honoring one of its favorite sons. These novels and many other works are an obvious doff of the hat to the place he holds dear. Bradbury has stated many times that Waukegan and its optimistic residents shaped his very being. In these tales, Green Town/Waukegan and its idyllic small town ambiance act as both the backdrop for flights of fantasy and as the stories' central character. Green Town was the pseudonym for Waukegan in a trilogy of Bradbury's novels - Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes and Farewell Summer - as well as numerous short stories. Few authors of his distinguished accomplishment are so closely identified with the towns that shaped them as is Bradbury, who over a 60-plus-year career has demonstrated abiding love for his former burg by placing it at the center of some of his most renowned stories. Ray Bradbury, the celebrated American master of speculative fiction, has emotional ties with Waukegan that are as deep as the haunting ravines he described in one of his masterpieces, Dandelion Wine.
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