Lurton Blassingame, his brother Wyatt and son Lurton
Although I've been around this board a long time I mostly feel like (acknowledge) that I am an amateur in comparison to many others here. I leave it to the board to see if the following is too far afield from Heinlein to be of interest. I did use the board search feature several times to see if the topics have been covered before - but did not find a match.
Lurton Blassingames's NY Times Obituary - apparently he died within a month of Heinlein - April 7 Thu vs May 8,88.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/13/obitu ... agent.htmlLurton Blassingames's archives of correspondence - noting there are 14 folders of Heinlein correspondence noted and marked 'closed'. Also one folder for Virginia.
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv82437Lurton's brother. Although it doesn't say so in the article note that his mothers full name is Maude Lurton Blassingame - not so common a name as to have two Lurton Blassingames and not have them be related.
Author of 600 short stories, dozens of juveniles novels. Wrote horror pulps for "Terror Tales" "Weird Menace" and "Dime Mystery".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Rainey_BlassingameA list of some of Wyatt's books - I like titles like "Mistress of Terror" and "Underwater Warriors"
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_ ... evancerankMore detail about Wyatt in book dedicated to history of a particular pulp...and confirmation of sibling relationship to Lurton.
https://books.google.com/books?id=PrKSH ... me&f=false