The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies: Advisory Board

The following scholars, writers and bibliographers with strong connections to Ray Bradbury studies have agreed to serve as external advisors for the new Bradbury center:

Donn Albright, Professor of Communication Design, Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Professor, Associate Degree Programs, Pratt Institute (Manhattan Center). Professor Albright has been Mr. Bradbury’s principal bibliographer since the late 1970s, and maintains the largest single collection of Bradbury manuscripts, books, multimedia work, and secondary source materials. Photocopies of major manuscripts from this collection will be deposited with the Center (see section 8 for a discussion of access procedures).

Sarah Lawall, Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts. Professor Lawall was one of the editors of The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, 8th edition, and author of Critics of Consciousness (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968).

David Mogen, Professor of English, Department of English, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado 80523. Professor Mogen is the author of Ray Bradbury (G.K. Hall, 1986), Twayne’s United States Author’s Series volume on the first four decades of Bradbury’s career.

Phil Nichols, Award Leader, BA (Hons) Video, Department of Digital media, School of Art and design, University of Wolverhampton, Birminghamshire, United Kingdom. Phil Nichols is an expert in Bradbury’s multimedia work in the United States and Great Britain. He maintains the most comprehensive on-line bibliography of Bradbury’s publications at his university-hosted web site.

William F.Nolan, author and expert in genre fiction, was Bradbury’s principal bibliographer from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s. Mr. Nolan is author or editor of more than 70 books in a career that has spanned more than half a century. Among his science fiction titles are Logan’s Run, its two sequel novels, many short stories, and a number of well-received anthologies of science fiction and fantasy. His contributions to the field of mystery writing include the Black Mask detective series and two studies of Dashiell Hammett. He is twice winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award. In 2002 he received the “Living Legend” Award from the International Horror Guild. Nolan has also written for film and television. His Ray Bradbury Review (1952) and Ray Bradbury Companion (1975), along with dozens of other introductions, prefaces, and bibliographical checklists, have provided two generations of Bradbury readers and scholars with a point of departure for the study of Bradbury’s life and fiction.

Robin Anne Reid, Professor of English, Department of Literature and Languages, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce TX 75429. Professor Reid is the author of Ray Bradbury (Greenwood Press, 2000). Her other publications in the Science Fiction field include a companion Greenwood Press study of Arthur C. Clarke.