In Joy Still Felt (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1954-1978
- Setting: Boston and New York City
- Principal Characters: Isaac Asimov, Janet Jeppson Asimov, John W. Campbell, Jr., L. Sprague De Camp, Austin Olney, Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Memory, Literature, Writing, Science fiction
Form and Content
Isaac Asimov is one of the best-known and most prolific science-fiction writers in the genre’s history. His name is found at the top of any list of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century. The fiction and nonfiction volumes which he has written or edited number in the hundreds, while his shorter pieces and articles are too numerous to be cataloged by anyone other than an assiduous bibliographer.
Asimov began keeping a personal diary as a teenager, making his first entries in early 1938. He continued this habit throughout much of...
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