Name: HEINLEIN, Robert Anson Aged: 80
Born: July 7, 1907 Where: Butler, Missouri
Died: May 8, 1988 Where: Carmel, California
Cremated: Ashes scattered in the Pacific.
Married: Leslyn MacDonald When: March 27, 1932 (div 1947)
Married 2: Virginia Doris Gerstenfeld When: October 21, 1948
Awarded: 4 Hugos for: Double Star (1956 Novel); Starship Troopers (1960 Novel); Stranger in a Strange Land (1962 Novel); and, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1967 Novel). The SFWA's 1974 Grand Master Award and a 1998 inductee into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

The most anthologized author of the Science Fiction writers. Possibly the greatest of the Science Fiction writers of his time, but certainly within the top ten of the 20th century.

Robert Anson Heinlein was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, and after serving on aircraft carriers and destroyers, retired as disabled (from pulmonary tuberculosis) in 1934. Heinlein studied mathematics and physics at the University of California and worked as a mechanical engineer during WWII at a Naval Air factory in Philadelphia. After the war, Bob tried his hand at various odd jobs, including silver mining, before turning his hand to Science Fiction. Heinlein's first sf book, Rocket Ship Galileo, was published in 1947.

Some Heinlein stories that, once read, never go away are "The Roads Must Roll" and The Puppet Masters. Heinlein thought his best story was "The Green Hills of Earth." 1997 saw the release of the movie Starship Troopers, a rather disappointing and callow version of the book...which promoted the new Hollywood thinking --- "More FX, Less Story."

Robert and Virginia took a trip around the world in 1953 and 1954, published posthumously as Tramp Royale, in 1989.

PEN NAMES: Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, and Simon York.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mine here.

BIOGRAPHY: Science Fiction Writers, Scribners, 1982

OBITUARY: Various

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