His father owned a succession of candy stores that remained open from 6 A.M. Compulsive writers, he makes clear, are made, not born and in Asimov'sĬase, the crucible was the family candy store, an institution all but obsolete today, which Asimov describes in less than loving detail. Readers who seek the answer to this question will not be disappointed by the first volume of Asimov's projected two-volume autobiography. Seven days a week, he tells us, and who can doubt him?) that he has turned out 199 books in 29 years, thereby earning himself a reputation as one of the leading science-fiction writers and the pre-eminent science popularizer of our day? Hat makes Isaac run? What drives this Brooklyn-reared son of Russian-Jewish immigrants to work so assiduously at his typewriter (10 hours a day, In Memory Yet Green The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov
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