Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein was born in 1907 in Butler, Missouri, and grew up in Kansas City. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and served as a naval officer before being discharged due to tuberculosis. After brief ventures into politics and engineering, he began publishing science fiction in 1939 and quickly established himself as one of the genre's dominant voices, helping to move it from pulp adventure toward social and philosophical speculation. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Stranger in a Strange Land.