Janet Jeppson Asimov, author, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and widow of Isaac Asimov, died on February 25. She was 92. She was also the former director of training at the William Alanson White Institute and a former science columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
In her early years, she wrote books under the name J.O. Jeppson and later used Janet Asimov. According to the Encyclopedia for Science Fiction, most of her science fiction was for children. Her books include The Second Experiment, "whose main protagonist--a Robot--traces and deeply impacts upon the long story of the race that created him"; The Last Immortal; Mind Transfer; and The Mysterious Cure, and Other Stories of Pshrinks Anonymous, consisting of "comical tales of psychiatry."
With her husband, she wrote the Norby Chronicles series, tales for young readers starring a robot. She also edited a selection of his letters called It's Been a Good Life: Isaac Asimov.