Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in Petrovichi, Russia, and emigrated with his family to Brooklyn, New York, at the age of three. A child prodigy who taught himself to read at five and haunted his family's candy store for its supply of pulp science fiction magazines, he earned a PhD in biochemistry from Columbia University and began publishing stories while still a graduate student. He became a professor of biochemistry at Boston University, though he eventually devoted himself entirely to writing. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Foundation.