It doesn't often happen that the author of a famous book actually says what the book is really about. We should listen when they tell us. Of course many don't, but in a way that's what remains compelling about some books--even the authors themselves cannot enforce a particular meaning on the reader. At any rate, Ray Bradbury, who recently won a Pulitzer, has refreshingly told the world that
Farenheit 451 is not what you thought it is about.