Apart from his world-famous science fiction, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, and textbooks, as well as two volumes of autobiography. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. Asimov wrote hundreds of short stories and novels, including the iconic I, Robot and Foundation. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day. Asimov's career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the short story 'Marooned Off Vesta'. The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. After a short spell in the army, he gained a doctorate and worked in academia and chemical research. He grew up in Brooklyn and attended Columbia University. Foundation began as a series of short stories in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in the 1940s and eventually became a trilogy of books published in the 1950s. Biography: Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in Russia and was brought to the USA by his parents three years later.
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