A challenged and banned book all about book burning and banning was initially written in just nine days. Well, the first draft was, as Bradbury was on limited time due to the way he had to write it.
He used a coin-operated typewriter in the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library. In just nine days, he was able to create the first draft, and at the rate of 10c for 30 minutes of use, it cost him $9.30. He wrote ferociously to complete that first draft, writing 25,000 words in that time, and yes, he had to keep dropping dimes into the typewriter to keep it running!
Now, it wasn’t because he didn’t have a typewriter at home. Like so many other authors, he needed solitude, and he couldn’t get that with a newborn daughter at home. The distractions put him off, so he chose to pay to use a typewriter, leading to a classic that focuses on how a totalitarian government can take over and limit access to information.
The irony didn’t stop there. It has faced a long history of intermittent bans and challenges, ever since it was first published in 1953. One of those involved the censoring of curse words by publisher Ballantine Books in 1967 so that it could be published in schools, but this was without Bradbury’s permission, and he later demanded that the original version be restored.
Most recently, the Elizabeth School District in Colorado restricted Fahrenheit 451 in 2025, requiring parental permission to read the novella. A federal judge intervened to make it accessible to all.
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