(Their jointly designed ultramodern house was featured in Popular Mechanics in 1952.) Began work with Alford Van Ronkel on screenplay for Destination Moon (loosely based on Rocket Ship Galileo), filmed in 1949–50. Moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1948, after a divorce married engineer Virginia Gerstenfeld. Returned to Los Angeles and to writing after the war, selling stories to The Saturday Evening Post and beginning a series of juvenile novels for Scribner’s with Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), followed by Space Cadet (1948), Red Planet (1949), and others. Volunteered for active duty after Pearl Harbor but was turned down worked as a civil service engineer in the Aeronautical Materials Lab at the Philadelphia Navy Yard (1942–45), recruiting Isaac Asimov and others as coworkers. Ron Hubbard, and others, and in 1941-already established as a leading writer for Astounding-was guest of honor at World Science Fiction Convention in Denver.
Traveled to New York in 1940, meeting John W. Joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, and began hosting gatherings of the Mañana Literary Society-an informal group of science fiction writers including Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, L.
Published his first story, “Life-Line,” in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939 (also completed a novel, For Us, the Living, published posthumously in 2003). Moved to Los Angeles in 1934 and became involved in Upton Sinclair’s End Poverty in California movement ran unsuccessfully for California State Assembly as an EPIC candidate in 1938. Married Leslyn MacDonald in 1932 (his first marriage, to Elinor Curry in 1929, ending quickly in divorce). Roper, later promoted to lieutenant, but was forced to retire in 1934 after contracting tuberculosis. In 1925 entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Moved to Kansas City as an infant attended Central High School and Kansas City Junior College.
Heinlein Born Robert Anson Heinlein in Butler, Missouri, on July 7, 1907, the third child of Rex Ivar Heinlein, an accountant, and Bam Lyle Heinlein.
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