Isaac Asimov

2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992

100 works on record

Biography

Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. 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 graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.

Works

Ellery Queen's Eyes of Mystery

1990

Why do we have different seasons

Isaac Asimov presents Super Quiz by Waddingtons

How is paper made?

The Future Makers

Why do we need sleep?

Why do stars twinkle?

Asimov's annotated "Don Juan"

100 Malicious Little Mysteries

Mathenauts

Between Time and Terror

Cloak and Dagger

The Giant Book of Science Fiction Stories

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948)

An Anthology of Angels

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great science fiction stories--volume 11, 1949

101 Science Fiction Stories

The Second IF Reader of Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov Presents Great Science Fiction #13 (1951)

13 Horrors of Halloween

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957)

Detectives A to Z [26 stories]

The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction

Jupiter

The New Hugo Winners, Volume I

The further adventures of Batman

Science Fiction

Clásicos de ciencia ficción (Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury / La Journée d’un journaliste américain en 2889 by Julio Verne / The Last Question by Isaac Asimov)

Four Science Fiction Classics (Foundation / Green Hills of Earth / Martian Chronicles / Mimsy Were the Borogoves)

Modern Classics Collection (14 novels)

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 22 (1960)

The Expert Dreamers

Science fact/fiction

Dragon Tales

Great Science Fiction Stories

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 (1947)

Sally

Asimov (Robots) 12 SW

The shaping of England

It's been a Good Life

Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1952

Before the Golden Age. Book 1 of 2. 1931-1933

New Dimensions II

Black holes & bug-eyed-monsters

In Memory Yet Green. 2/2

Bart Science Fiction Triplet # 1

Cosmic Critiques

How we found out about the earth being round

The solar system and back

Great ideas of science

100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories

How did we find out about robots?

Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Volume 2 (English Plays)

Asimov's Galaxy

Asimov's Ghosts

Works (Caves of Steel / Complete Robot / Naked Sun)

Bakers Dozen

The Dark Void

Opus. A selection from the first 200 books

Opus 200

Is there life on other planets?

Big Apple Mysteries

Isaac Asimov Conversations With Writers

Light

The planet that wasn't

Christopher Columbus

What's happening to the ozone layer?

All the troubles of the world

Fantastic Reading

How did we find out about volcanoes?

Crónicas (23 short stories)

Mars, the Red Planet

Isaac Asimov's 21st Century Library of the Universe - Near and Far (Set, 5 Volumes)

Jusqu'à la quatrième génération (9 short stories)

Asimov's Mysteries [1/2]

Isaac Asimov presents the golden age of science fiction. Sixth Series

Why is the air dirty?

Robots

Galley Slave

The Search for the Elements

Pollution in space

Quick and Easy Mathematics

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Volume 3

The Future in Question

How did we find out about blood?

How did we find out the earth is round?

Breve antologia de cuentos

It's such a beautiful day / Sitting around pool, soaking up the rays / Strikebreaker

The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction

Stories to be Read with the Door Locked (Volume I)

Asimov's Ghosts / Asimov's Monsters [24 stories]

How do big ships float?

The March of the Millennia

Young Monsters

Collected short stories (Robbie / Sally)

Novels (Lucky Starr and the big sun of Mercury / Lucky Starr and the oceans of Venus)

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 7

Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century

The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction

Mercury, the quick planet