While Isaac Asimov officially celebrated his birthday as 2 January 1920, his birth date is uncertain. Records were not well kept in the U.S.S.R. in the period between World War I and World War II, particularly if the records concerned Jews. By the time A...

By the time of his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov was widely regarded as one of the most productive and versatile writers of all time. Asimov was best-known for his science-fiction novels and popularized accounts of science, but he worked in a number of oth...

The author of nearly five hundred books, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is esteemed as one of the finest writers of science fiction and scientific fact in the twentieth century. Asimov was born on January 2, 1920, to middle-class Jewish parents in Petrovichi,...

Foundation by Isaac Asimov Born in Russia in 1920, Isaac Asimov moved to New York at the age of three. A self-proclaimed child prodigy, he began to write science fiction as a teenager and by 1950 had become a successful writer, published mostly by...

The Foundation Series is an epic science fiction series written over a span of forty-four years by Isaac Asimov. It consists of seven volumes that are closely linked to each other, although they can be read separately. The term 'Foundation Series' is...

The Artist Foundation is inaugurating a 10-week jazz concert series this weekend with a bang. The shows, tonight and tomorrow, feature vocalist Mili Bermejo and her new band celebrating the release of her latest album, "Homecoming." Born in Buenos Aires to a...

IN A RARE INSTANCE of a for-profit publisher receiving a large sum of grant money, a foundation will pay more than $1 million to Doubleday to support a new line of books about inventors and discoveries. The grant, from the science-minded Alfred Sloane...