Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American writer. He mostly wrote science fiction books. He won the Hugo Award four times. Probably his best-known novels are Starship Troopers (1959, Hugo Award, was made into a film), and Stranger in a Strange Land (1961, Hugo Award). Two other Hugo awards were for Double Star (1956) and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). Together with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke he is seen as one of the Big Three of Science Fiction.[1]
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Midshipman Heinlein, from the 1929 U.S. Naval Academy yearbook
Robert and Virginia Heinlein in Tahiti, 1980
Robert A. Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, and Isaac Asimov, Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1944
Heinlein's 1942 novel Beyond This Horizon was reprinted in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1952, appearing under the "Anson McDonald" byline even though the book edition had been published under Heinlein's own name four years earlier.
The opening installment of The Puppet Masters took the cover of the September 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
References
- ↑ "Robert A. Heinlein | American author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-06-21.