Jean Pond met once more with the Ray Bradbury and wrote about that lunch in 2006: Before the birth of his first daughter he went to New York in 1949 hoping to interest book publishers in his work.  They were looking for books, not short stories, but one of his contacts at Doubleday suggested he gather up some of his science fiction short stories and combine them in book form.  That became The Martian Chronicles.  He also sold them on his idea for The Illustrated Man.  He received $700 each for the two outlines and turned in his Greyhound bus ticket for a train ticket back to Los Angeles.

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