Faces & Traces - Isaac Asimov: A Prolific and Polymathic American Writer (Culture).

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Asimov, Isaac, was an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, historian, biochemist, textbook writer and humorist. Asimov was born in January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, Russia. Asimov immigrated with his family to the United States in 1923 and was naturalized in 1928. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Asimov taught himself to read at the age of five. He skipped several grades and received a high-school diploma from Boys' High School when he was 15. In 1939, Asimov graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Science degree, and earned an M.A. ...

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