The third volume, I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994),[3] published after his death, was not a sequel but a new work which covered his whole life.
Edited by Asimov, this book contains autobiographical material describing his childhood as a science fiction fan who grew up reading 1930s magazines.
In the introduction Asimov explains that he hopes that by including autobiographical information in his story collections, it will be easier to resist editorial pressure to write a proper autobiography.
Up until then, his main career had been lecturing in biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine, although by then he already earned more from his writing than he did from his academic post.
"[7]The publishers disliked Asimov's original title, As I Remember, so they asked him to provide another, suggesting he find a good quote from an obscure poem.
[8] Asimov suggested the following poem: In memory yet green, in joy still felt, The scenes of life rise sharply into view.
[8] But after falling ill in 1990 he decided to write it early, on his wife Janet's advice, in case he did not live that long.
[10] Janet's opinion was that the original two-volume autobiography was too chronological (although it was highly detailed, owing to Asimov's eidetic memory and the copious notes he kept about his life in his daily diary), lending it an emotionless and reserved quality.
[8] Published posthumously under the title I. Asimov: A Memoir (Doubleday, 1994; 235,000 words[11]), it covered his whole life, so that people who had not read the first two volumes could still enjoy it.