Born December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somersetshire, England; died March 19, 2008, in Colombo, Sri Lanka; son of Charles Wright (a farmer) and Nora Clarke; married Marilyn Mayfield, June 15, 1953 (divorced, 1964). Education: King's College, London, B.Sc. (with first-class honors), 1948. Avocational Interests: "Observing the equatorial skies with a fourteen-inch telescope," table-tennis, scuba diving, and "playing with my Chihuahua and his six computers." Military/Wartime Service: Royal Air Force, radar instructor, 1941-46; became flight lieutenant. Memberships: International Academy of Astronautics (honorary fellow), International Science Writers Association, International Council for Integrative Studies, World Academy of Art and Science (academic), British Interplanetary Society (honorary fellow; chairperson, 1946-47, 1950-53), Royal Astronomical Society (fellow), British Astronomical Association, Association of British Science Writers (life member), British Science Fiction Association (patron), Royal Society of Arts (fellow), Society of Authors (council member), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (honorary fellow), American Astronautical Society (honorary fellow), American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Engineering (United States; foreign associate), Science Fiction Writers of America, Science Fiction Foundation, H.G. Wells Society (honorary vice president), Third World Academy of Sciences (associate fellow), Sri Lanka Astronomical Society (patron), Institute of Engineers (Sri Lanka; honorary fellow), Sri Lanka Animal Welfare Association (patron), British Sub-Aqua Club.

NONFICTION

• Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics, Temple, 1950, Harper (New York, NY), 1951, 2nd edition, 1960.
• The Exploration of Space, Harper (New York, NY), 1951, revised edition, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1979.
• The Young Traveller in Space, Phoenix, 1953, published as Going into Space, Harper (New York, NY), 1954, revised edition (with Robert Silverberg) published as Into Space: A Young Person's Guide to Space, Harper (New York, NY), 1971.
• The Exploration of the Moon, illustrated by R.A. Smith, Harper (New York, NY), 1954.
• The Coast of Coral, Harper (New York, NY), 1956.
• The Reefs of Taprobane: Underwater Adventures around Ceylon, Harper (New York, NY), 1957.
• The Scottie Book of Space Travel, Transworld Publishers (London, England), 1957.
• The Making of a Moon: The Story of the Earth Satellite Program, Harper (New York, NY), 1957, revised edition, 1958.
• Voice across the Sea, Harper (New York, NY), 1958, revised edition, 1974.
• (With Mike Wilson) Boy beneath the Sea, Harper (New York, NY), 1958.
• The Challenge of the Spaceship: Previews of Tomorrow's World, Harper (New York, NY), 1959.
• (With Mike Wilson) The First Five Fathoms: A Guide to Underwater Adventure, Harper (New York, NY), 1960.
• The Challenge of the Sea, Holt (New York, NY), 1960.
• (With Mike Wilson) Indian Ocean Adventure, Harper (New York, NY), 1961.
• Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, Harper (New York, NY), 1962, revised edition, Holt (New York, NY), 1984.
• The Treasure of the Great Reef, Harper (New York, NY), 1964, new edition, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1974.
• (With Mike Wilson) Indian Ocean Treasure, Harper (New York, NY), 1964.
• (With the editors of Life) Man and Space, Time-Life (Alexandria, VA), 1964.
• Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age, Harper (New York, NY), 1965.
• (Editor) The Coming of the Space Age: Famous Accounts of Man's Probing of the Universe, Meredith (New York, NY), 1967.
• The Promise of Space, Harper (New York, NY), 1968.
• (With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Gene Farmer, and Dora Jane Hamblin) First on the Moon, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1970.
• Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations, Harper (New York, NY), 1972.
• (With Chesley Bonestell) Beyond Jupiter, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1972.
• The View from Serendip (autobiography), Random House (New York, NY), 1977.
• (With Simon Welfare and John Fairley) Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World (based on television series), A&W Publishers, 1980.
• Ascent to Orbit: A Scientific Autobiography: The Technical Writings of Arthur C. Clarke, Wiley (New York, NY), 1984.
• 1984: Spring--A Choice of Futures, Del Rey (New York, NY), 1984.
• (With Simon Welfare and John Fairley) Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Putnam (New York, NY), 1984.
• (With Peter Hyams) The Odyssey File, Fawcett (New York, NY), 1985.
• Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019: Life in the Twenty-first Century, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1986.
• Arthur C. Clarke's Chronicles of the Strange and Mysterious, edited by Simon Welfare and John Fairley, Collins (London, England), 1987.
• Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography, Bantam (New York, NY), 1989.
• How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village, Bantam (New York, NY), 1992.
• By Space Possessed, Gollancz (London, England), 1993.
• Frontline of Discovery: Science on the Brink of Tomorrow, National Geographic Society (Washington, DC), 1994.
• The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars, Norton (New York, NY), 1995.
• Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence, edited by K.A. Daniels, Anamnesis Press (San Francisco, CA), 1998.
• Greetings, Carbon-based Bipeds! Collected Essays, 1934-1998, edited by I.T. Macauley, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1999.
• (Foreword) Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest, The History of Astronomy, Firefly Books (Buffalo, NY), 2007.

• The Sands of Mars, Sidgwick & Jackson (London, England), 1951.
• Prelude to Space, World Editions (New York, NY), 1951, published as Master of Space, Lancer Books (New York, NY), 1961, published as The Space Dreamers, Lancer Books (New York, NY), 1969.
• Islands in the Sky, Winston, 1952, new edition, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1972.
• Childhood's End, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1953, with a new introduction by the author, Del Rey Impact (New York, NY), 2001.
• Against the Fall of Night, Gnome Press (New York, NY), 1953.
• Expedition to Earth (short stories), Ballantine (New York, NY), 1953.
• Earthlight, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1955.
• Reach for Tomorrow (short stories), Ballantine (New York, NY), 1956.
• The City and the Stars (based on novel Against the Fall of Night), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1956.
• The Deep Range (also see below), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1957.
• Tales from the White Hart, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1957.
• The Other Side of the Sky (short stories), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1958.
• Across the Sea of Stars (anthology; includes Childhood's End and Earthlight), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1959.
• A Fall of Moondust, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1961, abridged edition, University of London Press (London, England), 1964.
• From the Oceans, from the Stars (anthology; includes The Deep Range and The City and the Stars), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1962.
• Tales of Ten Worlds (short stories), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1962.
• Dolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea, Holt (New York, NY), 1963.
• Glide Path, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1963.
• Prelude to Mars (anthology; includes Prelude to Space and The Sands of Mars), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1965.
• An Arthur C. Clarke Omnibus (contains Childhood's End, Prelude to Space, and Expedition to Earth), Sidgwick & Jackson (London, England), 1965.
• (Editor) Time Probe: The Science in Science Fiction, Dial (New York, NY), 1966.
• The Nine Billion Names of God (short stories), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1967.
• A Second Arthur C. Clarke Omnibus (contains A Fall of Moondust, Earthlight, and The Sands of Mars), Sidgwick & Jackson (London, England), 1968.
• (With Stanley Kubrick) 2001: A Space Odyssey (screenplay), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1968.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (based on screenplay), New American Library, 1968, published with a new introduction by Clarke, ROC (New York, NY), 1994.
• The Lion of Comarre; and, Against the Fall of Night, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1968.
• The Lost Worlds of 2001, Gregg Press (Boston, MA), 1972.
• The Wind from the Sun (short stories), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1972.
• (Editor) Three for Tomorrow, Sphere Books (London, England), 1972.
• Of Time and Stars: The Worlds of Arthur C. Clarke (short stories), Gollancz (London, England), 1972.
• Rendezvous with Rama, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1973, adapted edition, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1979.
• The Best of Arthur C. Clarke, edited by Angus Wells, Sidgwick & Jackson (London, England), 1973, published as two volumes, Volume 1: The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1955, and Volume 2: The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1956-1972, 1977.
• Imperial Earth: A Fantasy of Love and Discord, Gollancz (London, England), 1975, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1976.
• Four Great Science Fiction Novels (contains The City and the Stars, The Deep Range, A Fall of Moondust, and The Fountains of Paradise), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1979.
• (Editor, with George Proctor) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 3: The Nebula Winners, Avon (New York, NY), 1982.
• 2010: Odyssey Two, Del Rey (New York, NY), 1982.
• The Sentinel: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy (short stories), Berkeley Publishing (Berkeley, CA), 1983.
• Selected Works, Heinemann (London, England), 1985.
• The Songs of Distant Earth, Del Rey (New York, NY), 1986.
• 2061: Odyssey Three, Del Rey (New York, NY), 1988.
• (With Gentry Lee) Cradle, Warner Books (New York, NY), 1988.
• A Meeting with Medusa (bound with Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson), Tor Books (New York, NY), 1988.
• (With Gentry Lee) Rama II, Bantam (New York, NY), 1989.
• (With Gregory Benford) Beyond the Fall of Night, Putnam (New York, NY), 1990.
• The Ghost from the Grand Banks, Bantam (New York, NY), 1990.
• Tales from the Planet Earth, illustrated by Michael Whelan, Bantam (New York, NY), 1990.
• (With Gentry Lee) The Garden of Rama, Bantam (New York, NY), 1991.
• The Hammer of God, Bantam (New York, NY), 1993.
• (With Gentry Lee) Rama Revealed, Bantam (New York, NY), 1994.
• (With Mike McQuay) Richter 10, Bantam (New York, NY), 1996.
• 3001: The Final Odyssey, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1997.
• (With Michael Kube-McDowell) The Trigger, Bantam (New York, NY), 1999.
• (With Stephen Baxter) The Light of Other Days, Tor (New York, NY), 2000.
• The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, Tor (New York, NY), 2001.
• The City and the Stars; The Sands of Mars, Aspect/Warner Books (New York, NY), 2001.
• The Fountains of Paradise, Warner/Aspect (New York, NY), 2001.
• The Ghost from the Grand Banks; The Deep Range, Aspect/Warner Books (New York, NY), 2001.
• (With Stephen Baxter) Time's Eye, Ballantine (New York, NY), 2004.
• (With Stephen Baxter) Sunstorm, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2005.
• (With Stephen Baxter) Firstborn, Del Rey/Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2008.
• (With Frederik Pohl) The Last Theorem, DelRey/Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2008.

• Opus 700, Gollancz (London, England), 1990.
• Rama: The Official Strategy Guide, Prima Pub. (Rocklin, CA), 1996.

Also author of introduction to Inmarsat History. Contributor to books, including Mars and the Mind of Man, Harper, 1973. Author of foreword for Paul Preuss's books Breaking Strain, Avon, 1987, and Maelstrom, Avon, 1988. Also author of television series Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers and a movie treatment based on Cradle. Contributor of more than 600 articles and short stories, occasionally under pseudonyms E.G. O'Brian and Charles Willis, to numerous magazines, including Harper's, Playboy, New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Holiday, and Horizon.

Clarke's works have been translated into Polish, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Dutch, and over twenty other languages.