![]() ![]() His first published short story, “The Coldest Place,” appeared in Frederic Pohl’s If Magazine in December 1964. ![]() He dropped out of college in California in February, 1958, and worked odd jobs before enrolling at Washburn University in Kansas, where he graduated with a degree in Mathematics.įollowing college, Niven turned to writing, supporting himself on a trust fund left to him by his family’s wealth. Frank Baum’s Oz stories and Robert Heinlein’s Juvenile novels, but it wasn’t until he discovered a bookstore packed with science-fiction novels and magazines in 1957 while he attended the California Institute of Technology that he fell in love with the genre, becoming enamored of authors such as Jack Vance, Arthur C. ![]() Throughout his early years, Niven picked up science-fiction stories, such as L. Niven spent much of his childhood in Beverly Hills, where he attended the Hawthorne Public School and later the Cate School in Carpinteria, California. Doheny, known for his part in the Teapot Dome scandal during the early part of the 1900s. He was a great-grandson of oil tycoon Edward L. Laurence van Cott Niven was born to Waldemar van Cott Niven and Lucy Estelle Dohenyborn on April 30 th, 1938, in Los Angles, California. ![]()
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