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Isaac Asimov

1920 - 1992

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Isaac Asimov ( AZ-im-ov; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isaac Asimov is the 98th most popular writer (down from 84th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Russia (down from 25th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Writer.

Isaac Asimov is most famous for his science fiction novels and short stories.

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Among writers, Isaac Asimov ranks 98 out of 7,302. Before him are Giorgio Vasari, Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, Louisa May Alcott, Erich Maria Remarque, and Ursula K. Le Guin. After him are Paulo Coelho, Virginia Woolf, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Miyamoto Musashi, and Arthur Rimbaud.

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Among people born in 1920, Isaac Asimov ranks 3. Before him are Pope John Paul II, and Federico Fellini. After him are Yul Brynner, Charles Bukowski, Rosalind Franklin, Toshiro Mifune, Farouk of Egypt, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Ray Bradbury, George Shultz, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Among people deceased in 1992, Isaac Asimov ranks 2. Before him is Marlene Dietrich. After him are Grace Hopper, Alexander Dubček, Willy Brandt, Friedrich Hayek, Astor Piazzolla, Menachem Begin, Mikhail Tal, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, and Francis Bacon.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Isaac Asimov ranks 29 out of 3,761. Before him are Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), Yuri Andropov (1914), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Alexander II of Russia (1818), and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906). After him are Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), David Hilbert (1862), and Yul Brynner (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Isaac Asimov ranks 7. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), and Maxim Gorky (1868). After him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Ivan Turgenev (1818), and Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861).

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