THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL SF AUTHOR
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From one planet to another, in the
solar system or outside, spanning the entire galaxy - that's
what the writing of the late and great Robert A. Heinlein is
all about...
The Biography...
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, in 1907, and died in Carmel, California, in 1988, age 80. He was a great author who emerged out of the pulps of the '30s and '40s to become a shooting star to glow brighter and brighter in the decades to come...
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In the years thereafter, he worked in many different professions, from real estate up to silver mining, and studied physics and mathematics at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.
His first story, Lifeline, was published in the August edition, 1939, of Astounding. John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor, had found his author at last, who was soon to start up the Golden Age for the magazine. Robert A. Heinlein had found his definite profession.
Misfit, Requiem, The Roads Must Roll, Logic of Empire, Waldo, Coventry, By His Bootstraps, Blowups Happen, Solution Unsatisfactory, They, The Devil Makes the Law(alias Magic, Inc.), and many other stories belonged to the first ones and became what was later called The Future History.
1941 saw the first appearance of Lazarus Long and the Howard family. Heinlein's novel Methuselah's Children introduced them to public. In the same year Sixth Column was released (according to an idea of John W. Campbell).
During WW II , Heinlein worked at the US Naval Air Experimental Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Robert A. Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, and Isaac Asimov at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1944.
After the war, Robert A. Heinlein was the first SF author who succeeded in leaving the pulps. In 1947 he sold four stories to The Saturday Evening Post, including his classicThe Green Hills of Earth.
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The novelette Gulf brought him back to the pulps in 1949.
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RAH in 1964 |
In 1973 Time Enough for Love told us a lot more about Lazarus Long.
In his older days, RAH concentrated on more philosophic things, like love or death.
Most of his novels written in the 70's and 80's brought him into the bestselling book charts. They earned him a lot of money, too: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), The Number of the Beast (1980), Friday (1982), Job:A Comedy of Justice (1984), The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), and his last novel To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987).
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A collection of letters was released in 1989, called Grumbles from the Grave. The author's thoughts on politics in 1946 can be found in Take Back Your Government, released by Virginia Heinlein in 1992. Written in the mid '50s, but published in 1992 for the very first time, and re-issued in November 1996, Tramp Royale is dealing with the author's travels around the world in 1953 and 1954.
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Virginia Doris
'Ginny' Heinlein
(born Virginia Doris Gerstenfeld)
April 22, 1916 - January 18, 2003
Virginia Gerstenfeld Heinlein was born April 22, 1916, in Brooklyn, New York. She married Robert Heinlein in Raton, New Mexico, in October 1948.
Shortly after Robert's death in 1988, she moved to Florida. She gathered a selection of her husband's letters in Grumbles from the Grave, printed for the first time his travel memoir Tramp Royale and political handbook Take Back Your Government (originally entitled How to Be a Politician).
In recent years, declining eyesight and physical health kept her from dealing with some of her favorite activities, but she built up an active presence with AOL and on the Internet, devoted to study of her husband's works.
She endowed The Robert Anson Heinlein Chair in Aerospace Engineering, established on August 28, 2001, at Annapolis, Maryland, by a gift of over $ 2.6 million, in honor of her late husband.
She also helped to found The Heinlein Society, an educational charity dedicated to paying forward the Heinlein legacies to generations yet to come.
She also endowed the public library in Robert Heinlein's birthplace of Butler, Missouri.
Virginia Heinlein died in her sleep after a long struggle with respiratory illness and a broken hip suffered on Thanksgiving, David M. Silver, secretary-treasurer of the Heinlein Society was cited in an obituary in the LA Times of January 26, 2003.
On Saturday, April 26,
2003, at about 5:30PM PDT, her ashes joined Robert's in the
waters of the Pacific ocean, after nearly 15 years.
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Robert Anson Heinlein grew up in Kansas
City, Missouri. After graduating from high school,
he attended the US Naval Academy in Annapolis,
Maryland, from 1924 to 1929. He served on many
vessels, a.o. on the USS Lexington, the most
advanced aircraft carrier at that time. His military
career came to an abrupt halt in 1934 because of
suffering from lung tuberculosis. He was discharged
from service, but kept his deep devotion for the
forces and all militaria till the end of his life
It was 1947 as well, when he
released the first of his novels for young people, Rocket
Ship Galileo. In the course of the next years
there were more novels which were to be called the 
During the '50s and early
'60s, many 
