16 Facts About Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury.

Fahrenheit 451 was written by Bradbury during the Second Red Scare and the McCarthy era, who was inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany and by ideological repression in the Soviet Union.

In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal.

The stage was set for Bradbury to write the dramatic nuclear holocaust ending of Fahrenheit 451, exemplifying the type of scenario feared by many Americans of the time.

Fahrenheit 451 is set in an unspecified city in the year 2049, though it is written as if set in a distant future.

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Fahrenheit 451's tells him about how her simple pleasures and interests make her an outcast among her peers and how she is forced to go to therapy for her behavior and thoughts.

Fahrenheit 451's reveals that Clarisse's family moved away after Clarisse was hit by a speeding car and died four days ago.

Fahrenheit 451 suggests that perhaps the books of the past have messages that can save society from its own destruction.

Fahrenheit 451 remembers an old man named Faber, an English professor before books were banned, whom he once met in a park.

Fahrenheit 451 destroys the Hound with the flamethrower and limps away.

Fahrenheit 451 adds that the phoenix must have some relationship to mankind, which constantly repeats its mistakes, but explains that man has something the phoenix does not: mankind can remember its mistakes and try to never repeat them.

Fahrenheit 451 developed out of a series of ideas Bradbury had visited in previously written stories.

Fahrenheit 451 was number seven on the list of "Top Check Outs OF ALL TIME" by the New York Public Library.

In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451, I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.

Fahrenheit 451 inspired the Birmingham Repertory Theatre production Time Has Fallen Asleep in the Afternoon Sunshine, which was performed at the Birmingham Central Library in April 2012.

In 1984 the new wave band Scortilla released the song Fahrenheit 451 inspired by the book by R Bradbury and the film by F Truffaut.