Have Space Suit--Will Travel | About the Author
Robert Anson Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907, in the small town of Butler, Missouri. One of seven children, he was particularly attached to his grandfather, a doctor who appears as a wise old man in many of Heinlein's novels. After graduating from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, he served in the United States Navy until tuberculosis forced him to retire from active duty in 1934.
From 1934 to 1939 Heinlein was active in politics and silver mining, and pursued graduate studies in physics and mathematics at UCLA. He was forced to drop out before earning his degree because of a...
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