Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor

by Isaac Asimov

Overview

640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them, from America's leading renaissance man.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395572269
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	02/04/1991
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	446
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

To list Isaac Asimov's honors, as to list his books, would be excessive. Let it simply be noted that Isaac Asimov was the most famous, most honored, most widely read, and most beloved science fiction author of all time. In his five decades as an author, he wrote more than four hundred books, won every award his readers and colleagues could contrive to give him, and provided pleasure and insight to millions. He died in 1992, still at work.

Author biography courtesy of HarperCollins.

Date of Birth:

January 20, 1920

Date of Death:

April 6, 1992

Place of Birth:

Petrovichi, Russia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Columbia University, B.S. in chemistry, 1939; M.A. in chemistry, 1941; Ph.D. in biochemistry, 1948