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Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
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Butler
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
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Caleb Saunders
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