Ray Bradbury Center | |
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| Founded | 2007 |
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| Founders | Jonathan R. Eller William F. Touponce |
| Type | Public non-profit |
| Purpose | "The mission of the Bradbury Center is to fully document, preserve, and provide public access to its large and diverse collection of Space-Age visionary author Ray Bradbury’s literary works, art, artifacts, personal office, personal library, correspondence, typescripts, manuscripts, photographs, mementoes, audiovisual materials and juvenilia; to enable visiting scholars and students to conduct research; to continue its outreach programming in the Indianapolis community, throughout Indiana, nationally, and internationally, with an emphasis on reaching high school teachers, students, and librarians; and to continue publishing our annual scholarly journal The New Ray Bradbury Review." |
| Headquarters | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Services | Research, outreach, publishing |
Director | Jason Aukerman |
Assistant Director | Carrie Cooper |
Key people | Nancy Orem Max Goller Kylie Adkins |
Parent organization | School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University Indianapolis |
| Website | liberalarts |
Formerly called | Center for Ray Bradbury Studies |
The Ray Bradbury Center is a publicly accessible, single author archive in the US dedicated to scholarship on the work of American author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury. It is located in Robert E. Cavanaugh Hall on the campus of the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, Indiana. The center is home to more than 100,000 pages of published and unpublished literary works stored in thirty-one of the author's filing cabinets; forty years of Bradbury's personal and professional correspondence (an additional 10,000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 4000 volumes).[1]