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Biography

Name: Robert A(nson) Heinlein
Variant Name: Robert A(nson) Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein, Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York, Robert (Anson) Heinlein
Birth Date: July 7, 1907
Death Date: May 8, 1988
Place of Birth: Butler, Missouri
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Robert A(nson) Heinlein
15,701 words, approx. 52 pages
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, a small town some sixty-five miles south of Kansas City. He and his six brothers and sisters were raised in Kansas City, where he attended grade school and high school, graudating from Central High in...


Quotations
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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert Anson Heinlein ( 7 July 1907 - 8 May 1988 ) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century. See...


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Robert A. Heinlein Information
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Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907–May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction". He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards...


News and Journals
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National Review
Robert Heinlein, RIP. (obituary)
06/10/1988: 369 words, approx. 1 pages
Robert Heinlein, RIP IN 1934, tuberculosis forced Lieutenant Robert Heinlein to abandon his naval career, five years after graduating (twentieth in his class) from Annapolis. In 1939, he took up writing science fiction to pay off a mortgage. But when the mortgage...
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ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
A Heinlein child pays homage to the master.(Robert A. Heinlein )
10/01/2007: 1,969 words, approx. 7 pages
SOME SCHOLARS ARGUE that Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential writer of the 20th Century. There is no argument Heinlein was the greatest influence on my life. Long before I heard the phrase "Heinlein's Children" I considered myself such a child--a competent...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by George Edgar Slusser
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In the following excerpt, Slusser surveys the plots and major thematic concerns of Heinlein's short fiction.
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Critical Essay by H. Bruce Franklin
14,778 words, approx. 49 pages
In the following essay, Franklin discusses the defining characteristics of Heinlein's early short fiction.
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Critical Essay by Ronald Sarti
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In the following essay, Sarti traces Heinlein's treatment of gender roles and sexuality in his short fiction.
 


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