Asimov, Isaac. In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. Presents an exhaustively detailed account of his youth and early manhood. His avowed intention is to avoid interpretation as much as he can, and to provide as many unvarnished facts as he can, leaving interpretation up to his readers. Given Asimov's irrepressible wit, he does not quite succeed in presenting nothing but facts; his portrait of himself as a teen-ager, for instance, includes his self-absorption, his love of whistling, and fondness for cemeteries—he presents himself as a comic figure whose bizarre habits cause his parents endless concern. His own feeling about his eccentricities was that they were his property, and rather than causing him embarrassment, he treated them as special parts of himself. He notes, more than thirty years later, that his eccentricities are now thought...