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American screenwriter (1955–2019) Not to be confused with Bettina Bradbury.

Bettina Francion Bradbury (July 22, 1955 – January 13, 2019) was an American television soap opera screenwriter. She was the daughter of American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.

Career

Bettina Bradbury attended the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles, California, and went on to enroll at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Her first venture into daytime television was as a writer on Santa Barbara from 1987 to 1993. She went on to write episodes of All My Children between 1995 and 2003, for which she won three Daytime Emmy Awards. She then wrote for One Life to Live in 2006 before joining Days of our Lives as a writer in 2007. She was also an assistant to John Conboy.

Positions held

All My Children (hired by Megan McTavish)
- Screenwriter: 1993 – January 20, 2006
As the World Turns (hired by Jean Passanante)
- Screenwriter: July 14, 2006 – January 7, 2007
Capitol
- Screenwriter: 1984 – 1987
Days of Our Lives (hired by Hogan Sheffer)
- Screenwriter: January 16, 2007 – January 16, 2008; April 23, 2008 - May 16, 2008
One Life to Live (hired by Dena Higley)
- Screenwriter: April 4, 2006 – June 13, 2006
Santa Barbara
- Screenwriter: 1991 – 1993

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Award
- Nominations, 1995, 1999, and 2001–2003, Best Writing, All My Children
- Wins, 1996–1998, Best Writing, All My Children
- First nomination shared with: Agnes Nixon, Megan McTavish, Hal Corley, Frederick Johnson, N. Gail Lawrence, Jeff Beldner, Karen Lewis, Elizabeth Smith, Michelle Patrick, Ralph Wakefield, and Pete T. Rich
Writers Guild of America Award
- Wins, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003 seasons, All My Children
- Nominations, 1992, 1995–2001, and 2003 seasons, All My Children
- Win, 1991 season, Santa Barbara

References

Charles., Piddock (2009). Ray Bradbury : legendary fantasy writer. Pleasantville, NY: Gareth Stevens Pub. ISBN 9781433900594. OCLC 234234213.
Thomas, Michael. "Days of Our Lives News: Bettina Bradbury Passed Away!". Soap Opera News. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
Mistretta, Amy (2019-01-15). "Soap Writer Bettina Bradbury Dead at 63". Soaps.com. Retrieved 2024-09-04.

External links

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Bibliography (Short fiction)
Novels	The Martian Chronicles (1950) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Dandelion Wine (1957) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) The Halloween Tree (1972) Death Is a Lonely Business (1985) A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990) Green Shadows, White Whale (1992) From the Dust Returned (2001) Let's All Kill Constance (2002) Farewell Summer (2006)
Short stories	"Hollerbochen's Dilemma" (1938) "The Scythe" (1943) "I, Rocket" (1944) "The Lake" (1944) "Frost and Fire" (1946) "The Million Year Picnic" (1946) "The Small Assassin" (1946) "I See You Never" (1947) "Fever Dream" (1948) "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" (1948) "The Long Years" (1948) "Mars Is Heaven!" (1948) "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" (1949) "The Exiles" (1949) "Marionettes, Inc." (1949) "The Long Rain" (1950) "The Rocket" (1950) "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) "The Veldt" (1950) "Ylla" (1950) "Embroidery" (1951) "The Fog Horn" (1951) "Here There Be Tygers" (1951) "The Pedestrian" (1951) "The April Witch" (1952) "A Sound of Thunder" (1952) "The Wilderness" (1952) "The Flying Machine" (1953) "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" (1953) "The Meadow" (1953) "The Murderer" (1953) "Sun and Shadow" (1953) "All Summer in a Day" (1954) "The Dragon" (1955) "The Aqueduct" (1979) "Banshee" (1984) "The Toynbee Convector" (1984) "Is That You, Herb?" (2003)
Collections	Dark Carnival (1947) The Illustrated Man (1951) The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) The October Country (1955) A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) The Day It Rained Forever (1959) The Small Assassin (1962) R Is for Rocket (1962) The Machineries of Joy (1964) The Vintage Bradbury (1965) S Is for Space (1966) Twice 22 (1966) I Sing the Body Electric! (1969) Ray Bradbury (1975) Long After Midnight (1976) The Fog Horn & Other Stories (1979) The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980) The Fog Horn and Other Stories (1980) Dinosaur Tales (1983) A Memory of Murder (1984) The Toynbee Convector (1988) Classic Stories 1 (1990) Classic Stories 2 (1990) The Parrot Who Met Papa (1991) Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1991) Quicker Than the Eye (1996) Driving Blind (1997) Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (2001) One More for the Road (2002) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007) Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007) A Pleasure to Burn (2010) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury (2011, 2014)
Plays	The Meadow (1947) The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975) The Martian Chronicles (1986) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1986) Fahrenheit 451 (1986) Dandelion Wine (1988) The Veldt (1988)
Adaptations	It Came from Outer Space (1953) Moby Dick (1956 screenplay) "I Sing the Body Electric" (1962) The Autumn People (1965) Tomorrow Midnight (1966) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) The Picasso Summer (1969) The Illustrated Man (1969) The Martian Chronicles (1980 miniseries) The Electric Grandmother (1982) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Bradbury 13 (radio series, 1983–84) Fahrenheit 451 (1984) "The Burning Man" (1985) The Veldt (1987) The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series, 1985–86, 1988-1992) The Halloween Tree (1993) Dandelion Wine (1997) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) A Sound of Thunder (2005) Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis (2008) The Whispers (2015) Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Miscellaneous	Futuria Fantasia (1939–1940) The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978) Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) It Came from Outer Space (2003 book)
Characters	Guy Montag
Related	Bettina F. Bradbury (daughter) Spaceship Earth Ray Bradbury Center Bradbury Landing Ray Bradbury Award Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury Dandelion crater "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes"

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