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"How to Write 50 books in 40 Years on Two Bottles of Wine a Day"

What a man!

Isaac Asimov wrote somewhere between 400-500 books in his lifetime. (The official web site explains why there is no exact count). He generally wrote 8 hours a day, 7 days a week.

At that rate, though, he would have to had drunk 16-20 bottles of wine a day to keep up with author #1.

Asimov was pretty much a non-drinker
>Asimov was a teetotaler in later life, mainly because in all of his experiences with drinking alcoholic beverages, just one or two drinks were sufficient to get him drunk. On the day he passed the oral examination for his Ph.D., he drank five Manhattans in celebration, and his friends had to carry him back to school and try to sober him up. His wife told him that he spent that entire night in bed giggling every once in a while and saying "Doctor Asimov".