Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, engineer and naval officer, born in Butler, Missouri, in 1907. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929 and served in the Navy until 1934. Active as a writer from 1939 to 1988, he was among the first science fiction writers to appear in mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, and is often grouped with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke as one of the Big Three of English-language science fiction. His best-known novels include Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Farmer in the Sky was first serialized in Boys' Life. He died in 1988.