The eldest of four children born into a farming family, Clarke became fascinated with science and astronomy at an early age, scanning the stars with a homemade telescope and filling his head with sci-fi tales from magazines like Astounding Stories.Īfter his father suddenly passed away, the financial hardships his family endured precluded Clarke from attending university despite his bright, inquisitive mind. Early LifeĪrthur Charles Clarke was born on December 16, 1917, in the coastal town of Minehead in southwestern England. Clarke died on March 19, 2008, in Sri Lanka. Clarke authored nearly 100 books, and many of his ideas around science had links to future technological innovations.
He wrote the novels Childhood’s End and 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was adapted into a film with Stanley Kubrick. Clarke established himself as a preeminent science fiction and nonfiction writer during the mid-20th century.
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