Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920-April 6, 1992), award-winning science fiction writer, was also a professor of biochemistry at Boston College. His Yiddish- and Russian-speaking parents were Anna Rachel Berman and Judah Asimov, a miller who was educated as an Orthodox Jew but who wasn’t punctilious about his observance.
The family immigrated to the United States in 1923 and owned candy stores, where, as youngsters, Isaac, his sister Manya, and brother, Stanley, all worked. The stores stocked science fiction magazines and newspapers, perhaps accounting for Isaac becoming a science fiction writer and Stanley a vice president of Long Island Newsday.
Isaac and Bertrude Blugerman were married in 1942, and their children David and Robyn were born in 1951 and 1955 respectively. The couple separated in 1970, and Isaac married science fiction writer Janet Jeppson in 1973. Isaac served as honorary president of the American Humanist Association.
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