Author Biography

	Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was born on January 2 1920 in a town named Petrovichi, in pre-Soviet Russia. His mom actually changed his birth date to January 2 1919, when they came to America, so he could get into school earlier. That is basically the only information I could find on his schooling. He thus started to read when he was five. He moved to the United States in 1923 and he never actually learned to read or write Russian. Soon after moving to The United States, his parents opened a candy store, where he spent much of his childhood years. During this time he began to write a book, which he never named. It was somewhat of a failure since he claimed that he had no vision for it, but this still started him, down the road to writing. He got married in 1942 and had one child, Robyn. Much to his dismay, his wife divorced him in 1973, because she though he was an unhappy and grumpy person. He was suffering from a disease, and never told her. She also divorced him because he was known to write eight hours a day and seven days a week. Isaac Asimov spent the last years of his life tying up several of his uncompleted series’. He also wrote several highly demanded books about his life. He did want to spend more time with his wife, but she urged him on. His last books became extremely popular and are considered some of his best works. His long and successful life ended in 1993, having written almost 500 books. Unbelievably most of his ideas for books, really come from nowhere. Although his most famous novels, the Foundation series was based off of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. In his massive writing career, he won dozens of writing awards. His most famous of which is the Grand Master of Science Fiction. He held this very important title for many years. He also won the Hugo award several times. Unbelievably, almost 10 more big and small titles or award were given to him. In the following quote, Isaac Asimov explains his philosophy, “You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.” By using this quote as an example, I can see why he wrote so many novels. This really proves why he is one of the most successful writers of all time. by, Crithulb
Books Of Isaac Asimov
	Science Fiction Novels 1 Pebble In The Sky Doubleday 1950 3 The Stars, Like Dust-- Doubleday 1951 4 Foundation Gnome Press 1951 5 David Starr, Space Ranger Doubleday 1952 6 Foundation and Empire Gnome Press 1952 7 The Currents of Space Doubleday 1952 9 Second Foundation Gnome Press 1953 10 Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids Doubleday 1953 11 The Caves of Steel Doubleday 1954 12 Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus Doubleday 1954 15 The End of Eternity Doubleday 1955 17 Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury Doubleday 1956 20 The Naked Sun Doubleday 1957 21 Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter Doubleday 1957 26 Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn Doubleday 1958 67 Fantastic Voyage Houghton Mifflin 1966 121 The Gods Themselves Doubleday 1972 262 Foundation's Edge Doubleday 1982 278 Norby, the Mixed-up Robot Walker 1983 281 The Robots of Dawn Doubleday 1983 298 Norby's Other Secret Walker 1984 318 Norby and the Lost Princess Walker 1985 328 Robots and Empire Doubleday 1985 333 Norby and the Invaders Walker 1985 349 Foundation and Earth Doubleday 1986 351 Norby and the Queen's Necklace Walker 1986 364 Norby Finds a Villain Walker 1987 365 Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain Doubleday 1987 379 Prelude to Foundation Doubleday 1988 404 Norby Down to Earth Walker 1988 429 Nemesis Doubleday 1989 437 Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure Walker 1989 445 Norby and the Oldest Dragon Walker 1990 456 Nightfall Doubleday 1990 The Ugly Little Boy Doubleday 1992 Norby and the Court Jester Walker 1991 Forward the Foundation Doubleday 1993 The Positronic Man Doubleday 1993 Mystery Novels 28 The Death Dealers (A Whiff of Death) Avon 1958 172 Murder at The ABA Doubleday 1976 Science Fiction Short Stories and Short Story Collections 2 I, Robot Gnome Press 1950 14 The Martian Way and Other Stories Doubleday 1955 23 Earth Is Room Enough: Science Fiction Tales of Our Own Planet Doubleday 1957 29 Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future Doubleday 1959 60 The Rest of the Robots Doubleday 1964 82 Through a Glass, Clearly New English Library 1967 87 Asimov's Mysteries Doubleday 1968 98 Nightfall and Other Stories Doubleday 1969 113 The Best New Thing World Pub. Co. 1971 125 The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying Doubleday 1972 146 The Best of Isaac Asimov Sphere 1973 150 Have You Seen These? NESRAA 1974 164 Buy Jupiter and Other Stories Doubleday 1975 167 The Heavenly Host Walker 1975 170 "The Dream", "Benjamin's Dream" & "Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast" Benjamin Franklin Keeps. 1976 174 Good Taste Apocalypse Press 1976 176 The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories Doubleday 1976 229 Three by Asimov Targ 1981 249 The Complete Robot Doubleday 1982 267 The Winds of Change and Other Stories Doubleday 1983 323 The Edge of Tomorrow Tor/Tom Doherty Associates 1985 332 It's Such a Beautiful Day Creative Education 1985 336 The Alternate Asimovs Doubleday 1986 345 Science Fiction by Asimov Davis Publications 1986 347 The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov Doubleday 1986 350 Robot Dreams Byron Preiss 1986 376 Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov Avenel 1987 409 All the Troubles of the World Creative Education 1989 410 Franchise Creative Education 1989 411 Robbie Creative Education 1989 412 Sally Creative Education 1989 421 The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov Dark Harvest 1989 450 Robot Visions Byron Preiss 1990








Related Links
Isaac Asimov's Homepage This is the Good Doctor's Homepage, where you can find information on virtually anything about him, plus there is a lot great links.
Slawcio's Foundation Page This interesting website shows all of Asimov's Foundation book covers. Even the ones from other countries.
Amazon This major website has information on most of Asimov's works.

Book cover images are from Imperial Galaxy, (http://www.slawcio.com/foundation/cover.html)

Photograph of the author is from Isaac Asimov's Homepage