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I Am Herman Melville
Sam Weller details the tempestuous collaboration of Ray Bradbury and John Huston on the production of the 1956 movie “Moby Dick.”
Today, few people are aware that Bradbury, renowned science fiction writer, beloved fantasist, and mainstay on banned-book lists, wrote the screenplay for the 1956 John Huston adaptation of the Melville classic, which starred Gregory Peck as the iconic and obsessive Captain Ahab. Even as Bradbury established his name as a bona fide literary force in the mid-to-late 1940s, publishing in Harper’s, TheNew Yorker, and the Best Short Stories of the Year anthology, he never lost touch with his youthful nerdish heart. In 1946, under contract for his first book (the gothic collection Dark Carnival, published in 1947), Bradbury began writing for a slew of dramatic radio programs, most notably Mollé Mystery Theater, Suspense, and Dimension X.
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