Reading: ROBERT A. HEINLEIN VOL. 1

© William H. Patterson, Jr., art by Donato.

I don't read many biographies, but this, of one of my favorite writers, was preordered as soon as I learned of it. It's very long, over 600 pages (and that's just volume 1 of 2, though about 100 of it is notes), and will take me a while, so I thought I'd report on it as I read. At present I've read the first 10 chapters, 125 pages.

Heinlein wrote very little about his own life directly, aside from one travel book ("Tramp Royale") and in his rare...