I did a Google search of the intenet and a search of this forum and could not find Heinlein's height mentioned anywhere. Does anyone know how tall was he?

I believe that he was right around 6'0" if I recall from the Patterson bio.

He appears to have been taller than George Pal, Keith Hetherington, and Dorothy Gardiner:

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/i ... directlink

Probably Michael J. Fox, too.

In the photos I could find on the Web with Ginny he looks about 6-7 inches taller than she, FTR. He apparently had good posture, due to Annapolis and/or the fact that children in his day were not allowed to slouch, which may make him look just a bit taller in photos.

Thanks. I can't find my copy of the Patterson bio right now so I posted the question here, figuring somebody would know the answer.

Robert recalls correctly. According to page 49, at Heinlein's Navy physical on 10 June 1925, he was 6 feet tall and weighed 118 pounds. This would have been just short of his 18th birthday. I don't know whether he grew any taller. See http://books.google.com/books?id=Z93OvsN2yq8C&pg=PA49 .

Thanks. I didn't know the bio was available online.

Wow. 'Beanstalk' comes to mind.

Parts of it are. Google Books, presumably following Tor's wishes, allows you to see a certain number of pages, and search the text, without allowing access to every single page. Handy for checking on details.

For all its limitations, Google Books is amazingly wonderful. We had nothing like it in the century I came from.