About Bill Patterson (1951-2014): Part 1
Apr. 29th, 2014 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beamjockeyWilliam H.Patterson, Jr. passed away last week. I will miss him. Nobody alive knew more about Robert Heinlein. He was a kind man.
I valued Bill's friendship-- though we didn't know one another well-- and was grateful for the warm encouragement he gave to my own research. In addition, he was always generous in sharing his hard-earned knowledge.
Before I met him, he'd already co-authored The Martian Named Smith: Critical Perspectives on Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land with Andrew Thornton. In 2010, Bill published Volume 1 of his much-anticipated biography of Heinlein, Learning Curve.
Here's more about Bill.
Here's an obituary at Tor.com.
If you'd like to see Bill in action, here's video and audio of a talk about Heinlein he gave at the Cato Institute in 2010.
Adding to the sadness is the realization that Bill died just before his new book was to be published. Robert A. Heinlein, Vol 2: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better, known to some as ISBN 978-0765319616, can be ordered from Amazon, to be published on 3 June. I want to read it.
Bill Patterson labored long and hard to make good books.
I valued Bill's friendship-- though we didn't know one another well-- and was grateful for the warm encouragement he gave to my own research. In addition, he was always generous in sharing his hard-earned knowledge.
Before I met him, he'd already co-authored The Martian Named Smith: Critical Perspectives on Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land with Andrew Thornton. In 2010, Bill published Volume 1 of his much-anticipated biography of Heinlein, Learning Curve.
Here's more about Bill.
Here's an obituary at Tor.com.
If you'd like to see Bill in action, here's video and audio of a talk about Heinlein he gave at the Cato Institute in 2010.
Adding to the sadness is the realization that Bill died just before his new book was to be published. Robert A. Heinlein, Vol 2: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better, known to some as ISBN 978-0765319616, can be ordered from Amazon, to be published on 3 June. I want to read it.
Bill Patterson labored long and hard to make good books.
