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Fahrenheit 451
1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury
This article is about the novel.
Fahrenheit 451 author biography books
For other uses, see Fahrenheit 451 (disambiguation).
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopiannovel by American writer Ray Bradbury.[4] It presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.[5] The novel follows in the viewpoint of Guy Montag, a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.
Fahrenheit 451 was written by Bradbury during the Second Red Scare and the McCarthy era, inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany and by ideological repression in the Soviet Union.[6] Bradbury's claimed motivation for writing the novel has changed multiple times.
In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote the book because of his concerns about the threat