BIOGRAPHY :
Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovich (Russia) between late 1919 and early 1920 (when in doubt, he celebrated his birthday on January 2). His Jewish parents left Russia to settle in the United States when he was three years he will be naturalized in 1928. Child, he helps his parents in the family candy store. There he devours magazines that publish many stories and novels. He participates in readers' letters and offers its first written at the age of eleven years. In 1937, he proposed his first story in "Astounding Science Fiction." It will be refused, but Isaac Asimov persists in writing and in 1939 he sold his first work in the magazine "Amazing". In parallel to writing, he continued a brilliant study that concluded in 1948 and became a professor of biological chemistry at Boston University.

Married since 1942 to Gertrude Blugerman with whom he has two children (David, born in 1951 and Robyn Joan, born in 1955) everything seems to pass to Isaac Asimov. Published regularly since the early fifties, he left his job as professor to dedicate himself entirely to writing from 1958. A prolific author, Isaac Asimov leaves two major works: the series "Foundation" (a trilogy which will be added five other volumes) centered on an imaginary science, the psychohistoire able to predict the future based on past events. Another major monument of writing the series of "Robots" (eight books in total) around the three laws of robotics, in which he fights against all forms of racism. Both works are still best-sellers and a good gateway to explore the science-fiction. In 1983, Isaac Asimov suffered a heart operation at the operation a transfusion of blood to transmit the AIDS virus. Sick, he continues to write and leaves a considerable oeuvre, hundreds of new science fiction and police, dozens of novels and dozens of books on popular science. Isaac Asimov died on April 6 1992 in New York.