National Review, June 10th, 1988
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 was paid off, he found he couldn't stop writing. He kept on for another forty-odd years, hitting the New York Times's bestseller list six times and publishing his last book on his eightieth birthday. Over sixty of his titles are still in print, in a dozen languages; over forty million copies have been sold.
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