Critical Insights: Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury Edited by Rafeeq O. McGiveron, Professor of English and author of extensive literary criticism of Fahrenheit 451 and other works, this volume presents a variety of new essays on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Several essays survey the critical conversation regarding this work from all standard critical perspectives – social, gender, post-modern, psychological, and cultural as well as the more traditional historical and close readings.