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Grumbles from the Grave (1990) is a post-humously released collection of correspondence between author Robert A. Heinlein and various editors, agents and other people in his life. It was edited (and with a Foreword and Afterword) by Heinlein's widow Virginia Heinlein. The volume is lavishly illustrated with black and white photographs from Mrs. Heinlein's collection.

Contents

(Capitalizations and layout are those used on the book's contents page)

• Foreword
• A Short Biography of Robert A. Heinlein by Virginia Heinlein
• CHAPTER I In the Beginning
• CHAPTER II Beginnings
• CHAPTER III The Slicks and the Scribner's Juveniles
• CHAPTER IV The Last of the Juveniles
• CHAPTER V The Best Laid Plans
• CHAPTER VI About Writing Methods and Cutting
• CHAPTER VII Building
• CHAPTER VIII Fan Mail and Other Time Wasters
• CHAPTER IX Miscellany
• CHAPTER X Sales and Rejections
• CHAPTER XI Adult Novels
• CHAPTER XII Travel
• CHAPTER XIII Potpourri
• CHAPTER XIV Stranger
• CHAPTER XV Echoes from Stranger
• AFTERWORD
• APPENDIX A Cuts in Red Planet
  
• APPENDIX B "Postlude" to Podkayne of Mars--Original Version
• APPENDIX C Heinlein Retrospective, October 6, 1988
• Bibliography
• Index