Isaac Asimov

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
-Isaac Asimov

He was born in Petrovichi, Russia, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old. He grew up in Brooklyn, where his family ran a candy store. He wrote or edited more than 500 books, many of them works of popular science, and he was one of the major science fiction authors of the 20th century.

-Writer's Almanac