Robert Inman

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     Born in San Francisco in 1931, son of Verne Inman, M.D., former chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at UCSF. He attended Grattan School and Lowell High, achieving the highest honors. 
        As he grew up, he worked summers as manager of the Headen Park Farm, a Santa Clara, California farm founded by his great-great grandfather, Benjamin F. Headen in 1852. The farm house is now the Inman-Headen Museum. 
       Graduated from Stanford with distinction (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1952, and was awarded back-to-back Fulbright Scholarships in German Literature in Graz, Austria. During this time he met Joan Marshall (Stanford, ‘53) at a New Year’s gathering of Stanford friends in Vienna.  They were married in Denver in 1958.
    Focused on writing all his life, he first authored a play which was performed by the Kaleidoskoptheater ensemble in Vienna. 
    In the U.S. Army, he served as a linguist in Intelligence Headquarters (Northen Europe) in Frankfurt, Germany. After his discharge, he completed a year of graduate studies at the Free University of Berlin. He later taught in the Germanic Languages Department at the University of Washington in Seattle, and received his masters degree there. He also worked as an editor in the U.W. President's Office. 
   In 1960, Bob and his family moved to Colorado, where he began his first novel,  and worked as an editor, reporter and librarian for the Denver Post. He later lived in San Francisco and NYC, where he was the editor of all six scientific journals for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, from 1983 to 1987. 
    His publications included two novels, The Torturer's Horse (1965) and The Blood Endures (1981). He received the O. Henry Award for a short story, I'll Call You (1981). He published other numerous short stories and articles, and was awaiting publication of a new novel, Delphi, when he died. Inman was recognized in both Who's Who in America and in the World. He was recognized by Men of Achievement in 1992. Robert was amicably divorced from Joan Marshall after 21 years of marriage. They have since remained good friends.