![]() ![]() This guaranteed Heinlein a future in writing. Heinlein wrote and submitted the story "Life-Line," which went on to win the contest. Still needing money desperately, Heinlein entered a writing contest sponsored by the science fiction magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories. Heinlein was said to have held jobs in real estate and photography, before he began working as a staff writer for Upton Sinclair's EPIC News in 1938. After contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, of which he was later cured, Heinlein retired from the Navy and married Leslyn MacDonald. Following in his older brother's footsteps, Heinlein entered the Navel Academy in 1925. Moving to Kansas City, Mo., at a young age, Heinlein graduated from Central High School in 1924 and attended one year of college at Kansas City Community College. The son of Rex Ivar and Bam Lyle Heinlein, Robert Heinlein had two older brothers, one younger brother, and three younger sisters. Robert Anson Heinlein was born on Jin Butler, Mo. ![]()
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