It might be a bit esoteric for this board, but the official biographer of Robert Heinlein died a few days ago. Bill - pardon me, William H. Patterson Jr. - had been at the pinnacle of Heinlein studies since the early Oughts, working closely with Virginia Heinlein, the Heinlein Trust and the Heinlein Archives at UCSC.
The second volume of the biography is still in interminable press and due out sometime next year. He failed to get a deserved Hugo for the first volume and now will at best be a posthumous candidate. Excuse me while I grit my teeth a bit.
There are many of us who will miss him, man and scholar, deeply. S’long, Bill.
I am not 100% sure that’s correct - Amazon sometimes works from preliminary or even BS information - but it may have been moved from 2015 without my noticing. I know he was upset at the long, long lead they’d assigned it.
You know how you forget about something in the oven, and find it a shriveled brown husk hours later? That’s how “done” the biography was. (Long story.) But yes, it was completed in any sense of the word.
Oh, and I forgot to throw in… “Cabell!” (Another long story.)