Arthur C. Clarke
(1917– )
Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead, England in 1917. His interest in science developed early. At the age of thirteen, he constructed a telescope from an old lens and a cardboard tube.
Clarke is a prolific writer. His collections of short stories include Across the Sea of Stars, The Other Side of the Sky, The Nine Billion Names of God, and Tales of Ten Worlds. Some well-known novels are Childhood's End, Earthlight, and Islands in the Sky. In 1969, Clarke was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he wrote with Stanley Kubrick. He collaborated on First on the Moon with the astronauts who made that milestone journey, and on Mars and the Mind of Man with Ray Bradbury and Carl Sagan. As an underwater photographer, Clarke has explored the Great Barrier Reef off Australia and the coast of Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
