Biography
Arthur C. Clarke was an English science fiction writer and science writer. Born in Minehead, Somerset, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and later studied physics and mathematics at King's College London.
Clarke co-wrote the screenplay for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) with Stanley Kubrick. He is also known for the novel Childhood's End and for his work on the film 2010 (1984). He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 and hosted television series on science and the unexplained in the 1980s and 1990s.
