In Memory Yet Green (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The early to mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Russia and the United States
- Principal Characters: Isaac Asimov, Judah Asimov, Anna Asimov, Gertrude Blugerman, John W. Campbell
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Discrimination, Family or family life, Memory, Racism, Literature, Writing, Jews or Jewish life, Science fiction
Form and Content
Isaac Asimov is known as one of the most significant writers of American science fiction of that genre’s golden age. The first volume of his autobiography, In Memory Yet Green, is perhaps most important because it documents his participation in that golden age as well as that of L. Sprague de Camp, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth, L. Ron Hubbard, and John W. Campbell and such science-fiction magazines as Astounding Stories (later Astounding Science Fiction), Amazing Stories, and Thrilling Wonder...
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