Arthur Charles Clark

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (English: Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008), was a British writer and inventor, especially famous for writing science fiction novels. Clark's most famous science fiction work is "2001: A Space Odyssey". The book was made into a movie of the same name in 1968 by director Stanley Kubrick and became a classic masterpiece of science fiction movies. Clark passed away in Sri Lanka on March 19, 2008, at the age of 90. Before his death, he had just finished proofreading his last book, The Last Theorem, which was published in 2008.