Information about Robert Anson Heinlein, or Robert Heinlein (1907-1988), a novelist often called "the Dean of Science Fiction," born in Butler, Missouri, and moving to Kansas City at a young age, graduating from Central High School at 3211 Indiana Avenue in 1924, and attending one year at Kansas City Junior College, before starting his writing career in 1939. Description of his life and career, writing over 40 novels, with some filmed as movies, including "Stranger in a Strange Land" (also a 1960s counterculture bible), "Starship Troopers," and "The Puppet Masters" (describing the distant future of Kansas City, with many specific places and streets).