It was in a library where “Fahrenheit 451” was born. Bradbury began to seriously ponder the subject of book-burning in the early 1950s when McCarthyism was sweeping the nation, and fear was abundant. The title of the book is the temperature at which paper burns.
Bradbury, who had two young daughters at home, needed an office in which to work. He found refuge in the UCLA library, where there was a typewriter room. There was a 10 cent charge for each half hour spent on the typing machines.
“I got a bag of dimes, and $9.80 later, I had written the first version of ‘Fahrenheit 451,'” Bradbury said. “It was so exciting to write in a library, in a place where the spirits of great authors impinged my soul.”
More on the legendary author’s appearance at the Temecula (CA) Library from the North Country Times.
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