Ray Bradbury Center

IU School of Liberal Arts

The Ray Bradbury Center is the nation’s first center for the study of Ray Bradbury, one of the best-known American cultural figures of the twentieth century. The center is one of the larger single-author archives in the United States, and a hub for scholarship on the work of Ray Bradbury and science fiction. Bradbury was regarded as a cultural mentor in such widely divergent fields as creative writing, education, public transportation, theme parks, and urban architecture.

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IU School of Liberal Arts

The Ray Bradbury Center is the nation’s first center for the study of Ray Bradbury, one of the best-known American cultural figures of the twentieth century. The center is one of the larger single-author archives in the United States, and a hub for scholarship on the work of Ray Bradbury and science fiction. Bradbury was regarded as a cultural mentor in such widely divergent fields as creative writing, education, public transportation, theme parks, and urban architecture.

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The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies collection.

Ray Bradbury dreamt big. At the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, we have a big dream ourselves: creating a nationally-recognized museum, archive, and outreach center dedicated to preserving Bradbury’s legacy—forever. Ray Bradbury’s work and influence spans many aspects of modern American intellectual and popular culture, including mainstream literature, the highly popular genre fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and detective fiction, and nearly all forms of media presentation, including radio, television, stage drama, film, magazines, periodical and book illustration, and graphic fiction.

The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies is home to more than 100,000 pages of published and unpublished literary works stored in 31 of the author’s filing cabinets; 40 years of Bradbury’s personal and professional correspondence (an additional 10,000 pages); and author’s copies of Bradbury books, including extensive foreign language editions, and his working library (a combined 4,000 volumes).

The Center’s mission is to:

  • Fully document, preserve, and provide public access to its diverse collection of Space-Age visionary author Ray Bradbury’s literature works, art, artifacts, personal office, mementos, audiovisual materials and juvenilia
  • Enable visiting scholars and students to conduct research
  • Expand its outreach programming in the Indianapolis community, throughout Indiana, and nationally, with an emphasis on reaching high school teachers, students, and librarians
  • Continue publishing the critical edition of Bradbury’s collected stories and our annual scholarly journal, The New Ray Bradbury Review

We know that Ray Bradbury has a special place in many people’s hearts. That’s why we’re committed to preserving—and protecting—his legacy. We hope you’ll join us in our efforts by making a gift today. Gifts to this fund will be used for the general support of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies.

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In July 2024, IUPUI became Indiana University Indianapolis and is no longer affiliated with Purdue University. The IU Foundation is in the process of updating all fund titles and fund descriptions to reflect this change. Effective July 2024, even though IUPUI may be mentioned on this page, gifts to this fund will be administered by the Indiana University Foundation, Inc., on behalf of Indiana University Indianapolis.