The Foundation series is arguably his defining work. While many will be familiar with Asimov's Foundation and Robot series, there is variety in his work. Far from one-dimensional, Asimov's interests extended to religion ( Asimov's Guide to the Bible), literature ( Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare) and smutty humor ( Asimov's Lecherous Limericks) to name a few. He wrote from a scientific perspective both in his non-fiction - he penned many essays and articles for periodicals such as the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - and his fiction. As an adult, Asimov majored in chemistry in university, and later spent time in the military, at the US Naval Air Experimental Station.Īsimov's fascination with science shone in his writing. He was born in Russia to mother Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and father Judah Asimov, whose love of Russian literature and Yiddish stories in particular contributed to their son's fondness for reading. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was one of the three most influential authors of hard science fiction during his lifetime, along with Robert Heinlein and Arthur C.

He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. His first novel, Pebble in the Sky, was published in 1950. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. He taught himself to read at the age of five. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. Asimov was born sometime between Octoand Januin Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.

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