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Asimov, Isaac
Isaac Asimov
Writer Extraordinaire
- Isaac Asimov wrote nearly 350 books. And he started when he
was 11 years old!
- He was born in Russia in 1920 to Orthodox Jewish family.
They moved to the United States in 1923.
- He could read by the time he was four years old! His mother
changed his birth certificate in order to get him into school
early.
- He read anything and everything he could get his hands on,
taking books out from the library because they could not afford
to buy new books for him.
- His parents owned a candy store in Brooklyn, New York.
- When he was 11, he wrote his first short story. He submitted
it and many others to Amazing Stories and Astounding
Stories magazines. Over the next 7 years, his stories were
rejected over and over again.
- Finally, when he was 18, he broke through and his first
story was published.
- He is an American Writer who started as a kid, and his
persistence paid off!
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