Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in ... the bright and “intense” Leslyn MacDonald, who held a master’s degree in philosophy, worked in the music department at Columbia Pictures and ...

In discovering his midlife vocation as a science-fiction writer, Heinlein was aided immeasurably by his second wife Leslyn, who he married in 1932 (an earlier marriage in 1929 fizzled after a year).

Leslyn. Heinlein was a longtime freethinker when it came to cultural mores, but his libertarian politics evolved slowly. He spent much of the 1930s as an activist in the socialist-leaning Upton ...

This happened at just the time he changed wives from a liberal woman, Leslyn, to a rock-ribbed far-right conservative woman, Virginia. Asimov’s favorite Heinlein novel was Double Star ...