INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ray Bradbury won over generations of readers to science fiction with “Fahrenheit 451” and other works during a writing career that spanned much of the 20th Century and produced a mountain of manuscripts, correspondence and memorabilia.
That sprawling collection, much of which Bradbury’s family donated after his death in 2012 at age 91, is now entering a long-running preservation project at its home on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.
The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies , which is devoted to the study of the science fiction-fantasy author’s works, won a $50,000 grant this month from the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin planning the giant archive’s conservation.
“This is a national treasure and we have the great, good fortune to be able to preserve his legacy here for years to come,” said Jonathan Eller, who befriended Bradbury in the 1980s and directs the center, which he co-founded in 2007.
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