Biography of Arthur Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke, a science fiction author, has had a very interesting life. Arthur was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England. He was the oldest of four children. His two brothers were Frederick and Michael, and his sister's name was Mary. As a child, he enjoyed science very much. He lived on a small farm, and enjoyed frequent trips to the nearby ocean. When he was 13 years old, he constructed his own telescope, and changed a bike light to transmit sound along the path of light it gave off. Arthur made his first literary connections by writing in the school newspaper.
He attended elementary, Middle, and high school in his home town, and then later went to King's College in London, where he made honors in Math and in Physics in 1948.
After Arthur had finished college, he became a member of the Royal Air
Force.Then later he became the assistant editor of Science Abstracts, a science magazine. After quitting his job as the assistant editor, he decided to become a full-time science fiction author.
Arthur has never been married, and still, to this day, is a bachelor.
Clarke is a very successful writer. In fact, he is considered to be one of the most successful science fiction authors ever! He has written many books, including: Hammer of god; 2001, a space Odyssey; Prelude to Space; The Sands of
Mars; Islands in the Sky; Against the Fall of Night; Childhood's End; Expedition to Earth; Going into Space; and Earthlight. Arthur has also written a few
Nonfiction books, like Interplanetary Flight, and The Exploration of Space. Also, one day, he had an argument with a colleague, and said, “ When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
(Science Digest )
Arthur has won many prestigious awards, including the UNESCO Kalinga
Prize, The Franklin Institute gold medal, the Robert S. Ball award, and the
Aviation/Space Writers Association Award.
An interesting fact is that Clarke proposed a belt of communication satellites, and now they exist. He also helped make the idea of space travel popular in the sixties. For some army history, Arthur joined the RAF in 1941.
	At the age of thirteen he boarded a ship to Whitehaven, which was a large port across the Solway Firth. There he signed up for a seven year seaman's apprenticeship on The Friendship of Whitehaven, whose captain was James Younger, a prosperous merchant and ship owner. His first voyage took him across the Atlantic Ocean to Barbados and Fredericksburg, Virginia at which he stayed with his older brother William, a tailor, who had left Scotland for America over thirteen years before, and who now was living comfortably and flourishing.
Mississippi Delta when he was an infant. Raised for the rest of his young life
He is said to have been introduced to the sailing life when he was 14 years of age when “he left his home to become a ship’s mate on a Portuguese fleet to Africa (Hurst 1).” While with the fleet, that is where he would have been exposed to many of the things that years later shaped his own expedition. He sailed north from Africa, to “England, Ireland, and even Iceland when he was 25 years of age (Hurst 2).” In Africa, he would have learned of the gold and slave trade and even catch glimpses of the New World from shipmates.
an emotional man. His parents were owners of a shop and his two oldest sisters
studying science and then British literature. After the Second World War , he worked as a
He later attended Harvard University where he received not only a law degree but he also received a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Arts. He took the bar in 1791 where he passed and began his career as a lawyer in Boston. Quincy’s love for politics came from watching his father. Having a father that was a man of power allowed Quincy to gain a lot of political insight which led to his successful political and presidential career.
up near London and was educated at Oxford, from which he received his BA in 1962,
boats, and selling coal from a cart. On his off times he would go around to
He didn't have a very exciting life when he was younger but he did grow up sailing on short trips on the English coast. Since a young age he knew he wanted to be on the water. When he was older he sailed on countless voyages.
Lawrence was a very well educated man, but he did not have the best education until he was in college. He started college at Virginia Union University, an all-black school, where in 1951 he received a degree in chemistry and in science. After graduating he started working as a toxicologist in the medical examiner's office. In 1952, he was drafted into the army and served in the Korean War where he earned the Bronze Star for heroism in combat for ...
with his father but on occasion he would get to go to work with him. This is what interested
He went to segregated middle schools in Georgia and then went on to high school. He was excelling exceedingly well, so they let him skip his ninth and twelfth grade school years. Astonishingly, he graduated at the age of fifteen. He went on to a prestigious African-American college called Morehouse College, which his father and grandfather attended and graduated from (Nobel Foundation). King graduated with a B.A. in Sociology. A few years later he decided to enroll in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. Further education took place and in 1955 King received his Ph. D. from Boston University (Wikipedia). While in Boston, King met, and later married, Coretta Scott. She was unusually intelligent and had many different artistic accomplishments. Later, they would have two sons and two daughters (Nobel Foundation).
with his parents “He was only nine, not old enough to be left alone in
Nash earned a full scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology. After starting his college career with a major in chemical engineering, he later switched to chemistry and eventually mathematics. He later graduated with a bachelor of science in mathematics and a master of science in mathematics in 1948. After graduation he started his graduate studies at Princeton University.
child and was an orphan raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City.