Ray Bradbury, author...

...of The Martian Chronicles and other science fiction, died at age 91. Chronicles was one of the very few books assigned to me in high school that I actually liked; I'll have to read it again now. 

From his obit in the Times (my emphasis): 

While Mr. Bradbury championed the space program as an adventure that humanity dared not shirk, he was content to restrict his own adventures to the realm of imagination. He lived in the same house in Los Angeles for more than 5o years, rearing four daughters with his wife, Marguerite, who died in 2003. For many years he refused to travel by plane, preferring trains, and he never learned to drive. 

Can you imagine living in Los Angeles and never learning how to drive?