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and the copious notes he kept about his life in his daily diary), lending it an emotionless and reserved quality. As such, she encouraged him to write a third volume which would instead convey more of his feelings about the contents. Published posthumously under the title
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A reader once told me, enthusiastically, after the autobiography was published, that he had read the book with immense interest and that he had been unable to keep from turning the pages and reading on and on and on, laughing all the way.
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Doubleday agreed to Asimov's new title, but could not find the source of the verse he had given them. When
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165:(Doubleday, 1979) is the first volume of Asimov's two-volume autobiography. It ends shortly before the point when he became a full-time writer. Up until then, his main career had been lecturing in
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151:(Doubleday, 1975) collects 24 of Asimov's stories, first published between 1950 and 1973. The autobiographical material between the stories covers the same period, carrying on from where
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In an interview shortly after publication, Asimov said: "I've done nothing in my life. You would be surprised how shrewdly I had to write it to obscure that fact." He later wrote:
252:(Doubleday, 1994; 235,000 words), it covered his whole life, so that people who had not read the first two volumes could still enjoy it. Janet Asimov wrote an epilogue.
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228:(1980) is the second part of Asimov's autobiography. The title is also taken from the poem. The two volumes are 640,000 words long in total.
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