HEINLEIN'S CAREER

HEINLEIN'S CAREER
   Robert A. Heinlein was such a successful science fiction writer that many people don’t realize he got a very late start in his field.Heinlein’s first job was as a Navy officer, but that career ended when he contracted tuberculosis. In the five years between Heinlein's discharge and the start of his writing career in 1939, at age 32, he engaged in many colorful and apparently unsuccessful business ventures. At the height of the Depression, he became a mining speculator and found himself the owner of asilver mine in Colorado. He later tried to sell the mine, but a prospective buyer was machine-gunned to death before the deal could close. Luckily for his public, Heinlein managed to extricate himself from hisbusiness deals. And he went on to become one of the most important science fiction writers of his generation.

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