Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 1: Learning Curve (1907-1948)

Patterson Jr., William H.

ISBN 10: 0765319624 / ISBN 13: 9780765319623

Published by Tor Books, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 1: Learning Curve (1907-1948)
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765319624
• ISBN 13: 9780765319623
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biography

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the USA in his later years. His most famous works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, he was both stranger and more interesting than one could ever have known. This is the first of two volumes of a major American biography. This volume is about Robert A. Heinlein's life up to the end of the 1940s and the mid-life crisis that changed him forever.

About the Author

WILLIAM H. PATTERSON was a lifelong devotee of the works of Robert A. Heinlein, and was chosen by Virginia Heinlein to write Robert Heinlein's official biography, Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve and Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better. He died on April 22, 2014.