Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime he was considered one of the Big Three science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than five hundred books. He was born around 1920 and died in 1992. Best known for his hard science fiction, he also wrote mysteries and fantasy as well as popular science and other non-fiction, and his work spans nine of the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system. His most famous work is the Foundation series about a fallen space empire, whose first three books won the one-time Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series in 1966.