Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific authors of our time. When he diedin 1992 at the age of seventy-two, he had published more than 470 books innearly every category of fiction and nonfiction. Asimov was a prodigiouscorrespondent as well as a prolific author. During his professional career hereceived more than one hundred thousand letters, over ninety thousand of whichhe answered.

For Asimov's younger brother, veteran newspaperman Stanley Asimov, the creationof "Yours, Isaac Asimov" was truly a labor of love. Completed beforeStanley's death in August 1995, the book is made up of excerpts from onethousand never-before-published letters, each handpicked by Stanley forinclusion in this volume. Arranged by subject and accompanied by Stanley'sshort, insightful introductions, here are letters to statesmen and scientists, actors and authors, as well as to children, housewives, aspiring writers, andfans the world over. The letters are warm, engaging, reasoned, and occasionallyimpassioned. Through them all Isaac Asimov's legendary genius, wit, and charmshine through.

And so we have "Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters," an intimateglimpse into the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of a great writer and thinkerof the modern age. As Stanley Asimov advised, "Read the letters carefully. Oneof them may have been written to you."