LC control no. | n 79123600 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3568.O2888 |
Personal name heading | Robinson, Frank M., 1926-2014 |
Variant(s) | רובינסון, פראנק מ., 1926-2014 רובינסון, פרנק מ., 1926-2014 |
Located | San Francisco (Calif.) |
Birth date | 1926-08-09 |
Death date | 2014-06-30 |
Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
Place of death | San Francisco (Calif.) |
Field of activity | Science fiction |
Affiliation | United States. Navy |
Profession or occupation | Novelists Journalists Speechwriters |
Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
Found in | His The power, 1956. NUCMC data from Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Hist. Soc. for His Papers, 1929-1989 (Frank M. Robinson, born in 1926 in Chicago, is a novelist and former journalist. He was also a good friend of Harvey Milk. During his teen years, Robinson worked as a copyboy for the International News Service, later he became an office boy for Ziff-Davis, a science fiction publisher. He indulged his interest in comic books, particularly science fiction-themed comic books, while working there; served in the Navy during 1943 and later in the Korean War; wrote his first novel, The Power; later worked in San Francisco, Calif. at various magazines) New York times (online), viewed July 7, 2014 (in obituary published July 4: Frank M. Robinson; b. Frank Malcolm Robinson, Aug. 9, 1926, Chicago; d. Monday [June 30, 2014], San Francisco, aged 87; well-regarded science fiction writer whose credits include a novel adapted for the 1974 blockbuster film The towering inferno, and who was also a speechwriter and adviser to Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city supervisor assassinated in 1978) ha-Koaḥ, c1979: t.p. (פראנק מ. רובינסון = Franḳ M. Robinson) cover( פרנק מ. רובינסון = Franḳ M. Robinson) |
Associated language | eng |