Keith Monroe
{{short description|United States author}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Keith Monroe
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|08|22}}
| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|08|30|1915|08|22}}
| death_place = Berkeley, California, U.S.
| other_names = Donald Keith, Dale Colombo, Rice E. Cochran
| known_for = Time Machine stories
| occupation = Author and Boy Scout leader
}}
Keith Monroe (22 August 1915 – 30 August 2003) was an American author of children's science fiction and of books and magazine articles about Boy Scouting.{{cite news | title = Keith Monroe | journal = Scouting | date = May 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lfwDAAAAMBAJ&q=Be+Prepared+by+Keith+Monroe%2C+writing+under+the+pseudonym+Rice+E.+Cochran&pg=PA7 | page = 6 }}
Monroe attended Stanford University and UCLA. He worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, for advertising and public relations firms, and for North American Rockwell. At times, he was a full-time freelance writer.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
His work appeared in such magazines as Saturday Evening Post, New Yorker, |Harper's, Blue Book, Galaxy, Argosy, Boys' Life, and Scouting. His pseudonyms included Donald Keith, Rice E. Cochran, and Dale Colombo.
Scouting
Monroe was deeply involved with Scouting. He served as Scoutmaster for Troop 2 in Santa Monica, California from its founding in December 1945 until 1987.
He wrote articles for Scouting, the magazine for adult Scout leaders; merit badge instruction pamphlets; and fiction for Boys' Life. Under the name Rice E. Cochran, he published Be Prepared!, a humorous memoir of his experiences as a Scoutmaster.It was the basis for the 1953 movie Mister Scoutmaster.
Monroe was a recipient of the Silver Beaver Award.
Science fiction
Collaborating under the pseudonym Donald Keith with his father, Donald Monroe, Keith Monroe wrote the Time Machine series, originally published in Boys' Life between 1959 and 1989.{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sDw6AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA18 |accessdate= 2011-10-12 |title= He Stayed for the Dividends |author= Mac Gardner |work = Scouting |date = January 1970 | page = 18 }}
Donald Keith also contributed stories to Galaxy Science Fiction and Blue Book.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
Using the pseudonym Dale Colombo, Keith Monroe published in Boys' Life a series about Scouts in space, featuring a protagonist named Ed Linden, set aboard the spaceship Magellan. These Scouts had been born in interstellar space during the decades-long journey from Earth to planets orbiting a distant star.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book | year = 1950 | title = Use Your Head in Tennis | first1 = Bob | last1 = Harman | first2 = Keith | last2 = Monroe |publisher= Crowell | isbn = 9780690005844}}
- {{cite book | year = 1952 | title = Be prepared!: The life and illusions of a scoutmaster | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VHPLPAAACAAJ | first = Rice E. | last = Cochran | author-link = Keith Monroe |publisher= Random House}}
- {{cite book | year = 1962 | title = How to Succeed in Community Service | first1 = Donald | last1 = Monroe | first2 = Keith | last2 = Monroe |publisher= Lippincott | asin = B001UXCLWG}}
- {{cite book | year = 1963 | title = California: How to Live, Work, and Have Fun in the Golden State | first = Keith | last = Monroe |publisher= Random House | asin = B000L1V4FS}}
- {{cite book | year = 1963 | title = Mutiny in the Time Machine | first = Donald | last = Keith |publisher= Random House |others= illustrated by Marilyn Miller | asin = B0007E9SWA}}
- {{cite book | year = 1967 | title = Time Machine to the Rescue | first = Donald | last = Keith |others= illustrated by Albert Orbaan |publisher= Putnam | asin = B0006BRBWS}}
- {{cite book | year = 1969 | title = Space: A New Direction for Mankind | first1 = Edward B. | last1 = Lindaman | first2 = Keith | last2 = Monroe |publisher= Harper & Row | asin = B00005WX6A}}
- {{cite book | year = 1980 | title = The Official Patrol Leader Handbook | isbn = 978-0839565123 | edition = 3 | first1 = William | last1 =Hillcourt | first2 = Keith | last2 = Monroe |publisher= Boy Scouts of America }}
Further reading
- {{cite web
|url= http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/s/s5486.htm#A138987
|accessdate= 2018-11-20
|title= Stories by Keith Monroe
|publisher= The FictionMags Index
}}
- {{cite web |url= http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/s/s4323.htm#A105887 |accessdate= 2018-11-20 |title= Stories by Donald Keith |publisher= The FictionMags Index}}
References
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External links
- {{isfdb name|id=Keith_Monroe|name=Keith Monroe}}
- {{IMDb title|qid=Q3612437|title=Mister Scoutmaster}}
- {{cite web |url= https://www.troop2bsa.org/keith-monroe |work =Troop 2 |title= Memorial page for Keith Monroe}}
- {{cite web |url= http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0405/d-news.html |title= Obituary |work = Scouting}}
- {{cite web |url= http://beamjockey.livejournal.com/150027.html | title = List of Time Machine stories | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721162445/http://beamjockey.livejournal.com/150027.html | archive-date = July 21, 2011 | editor-first = William S. | editor-last= Higgins}}
- {{cite web |url= http://beamjockey.livejournal.com/182596.html | title = List of Dale Colombo stories | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120107213110/http://beamjockey.livejournal.com/182596.html | archive-date = January 7, 2012 | editor-first = William S. | editor-last= Higgins}}
- [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-cochran,%20rice%20e/ Rice E. Cochran] at WorldCat with 1 catalog record
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:American science fiction writers
Category:American male short story writers
Category:20th-century American short story writers
Category:20th-century American male writers