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wpuld be impossible to reconstruct those. They have been omitted.
There are a few sparse excerpts from letters which were written after I took
over running the business end of RobertтАЩs writing . . . most of those letters
written by Robert. He talked to Lurton Blassingame, his agent, now and then,
but mostly he spent his time reading for his work, or writing. During the last
eighteen years of his life, he had many illnesses. But, in between, he
continued working.
I was his тАЬfirst readerтАЭтАФthe person who read each work first and made
suggestions for cutting, revisions, and so on. It was a great responsibility.
When Robert came down with peritonitis in 1970, / Will Fear No Evil needed
more cutting, but it was obvious that he was (and would be for a long time) in
no condition to do that. And his publisher was calling for the manuscript, so I
had it Xeroxed and sent it in. I take full responsibility for that. With further
cutting, it might perhaps have been a better story. In spite of this, it has sold
more than a million copies in U.S. paperback alone, and has been translated
into more than half-a-dozen languages, and is still in print in all of those,
including English.
At one time, Robert wrote to his agent about the pos-
sibility of writing a memoir-autobiography: Grumbles From The Grave by
Robert A. Heinlein (deceased).
This is that book. It covers many years, many subjects, and some personal
commentsтАФtaken mostly from letters between Robert and his agent, Lurton
Blassingame.

Virginia Heinlein Carmel, California 1988

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A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN BY

VIRGINIA HEINLEIN
Robert Anson Heinlein was born July 7, 1907, the third of seven children of
Bam Lyle Heinlein and Rex Ivar Heinlein, in Butler, Missouri. The growing
family moved to Kansas City during his childhood.
When Robert learned to read, he read everything he could lay his hands on.
He did, in fact, read on his way to school, going along the street, up and
down curbs, up to the schoolhouse. He attended junior high school, Central
High School in Kansas City, arid spent one year at a local junior college. His
next older brother had gone before him to the United States Naval Academy,
and Robert set his sights on going there. He collected many letters of
recommendation from people and gained the appointment from Senator
James Reed to enter the Naval Academy in 1925.
Following his graduation and commissioning in 1929, he served aboard the
Lexington under Captain E. J. King, who later became commander in chief of
the U.S. Navy during World War II. When his tour of duty on the Lexington