[WikiEN-l] The Curious Incident of the Fans in the Night

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, David Gerard wrote:
>>     
>>> If they want to filibuster the reliability of this source, it speaks
>>> of some child being Robert Heinlein's great-grandson ... Heinlein
>>> didn't have any children. I wonder where they got that from.
>>>       
>> Wikipedia's article on Heinlein nowhere says he didn't have any children.
>> It's generally accepted that he and Virginia didn't have any children, but
>> Virginia was his third wife, and he was married to his second for 15 years.
>>     
>
> True, but the New York Times obituary says he was survived only by his
> third wife. If he had children by either 1 or 2, wouldn't they have
> mentioned it? And try googling around a bit; you'll find nothing, and
> even the occasional hit specifically claiming there were no children
> (http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/rahfaq.html#0106)
>
>   
As someone who has researched this particular topic pretty
thoroughly (even to the point of discovering Heinlein's involvement
in EPIC well before it was published in "reliable sources")...

...I would posit you have to allow that wife number 1. is still a
complete mystery.

Literally.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen


P. S. Never mind William Proxmire, a shot of T.B. vaccine on a navy ship,
Heinlein could have been a congress-critter if just Konrad Henlein
hadn't been making headlines in the Sudetenlands as a "tiny fuhrer"
the particular election year Robert A. Heinlein decided to stand up
for election.