Biography or hagiography

<p> Or: I think I have finally figured out why Robert Heinlein makes me so nuts</p> <p> At the age of 17—the year he died—my most favorite author in the whole world was probably Robert Heinlein. I don&#39;t think anyone else came anywhere close. I had read just about everything he had ever published, and (with the exception of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnhams_Freehold)"><em>Farnham&#39;s Freehold</em></a>, I loved it all.</p> <p> Some of these books had enormous implications for my attitude toward the world—<em>Stranger in a Strange Land</em>, <em>Time Enough for Love</em>, <em>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress</em> and <em>Starship Troopers</em> being the most obvious. They marked me indelibly. They helped make me who I am today.</p>