Background
Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of a check forger, Frank started out working as a copy boy for International Service in his teens and then became an office boy for Ziff Davis.
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Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of a check forger, Frank started out working as a copy boy for International Service in his teens and then became an office boy for Ziff Davis.
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Beloit College, 1950; Master of Science in Journalism, Northwestern University, 1955.
He was drafted into the Navy for World World War II, and when his tour was over went to Beloit College where he majored in physics, graduating in 1950. Then, according to his official website, he could find no work as a writer, and wound up back in the Navy to serve in of Korea, where he managed to keep writing, read a lot, and publish in the magazine Astounding. After the Navy, he went to graduate school in journalism, then worked for a Chicago-based Sunday supplement.
Soon afterward he switched to Science Digest, where he worked from 1956-1959.
From there, he moved into men"s magazines: Rogue (1959-1965) and Cavalier (1965-1966). In 1969, Playboy asked him to take over the Playboy Advisor column.
He remained with Playboy until 1973, when he left to write full-time. After moving to San Francisco in the 1970s, Robinson, who was gay, was a speechwriter for gay politician Harvey Milk.
He also has a small role in the film Milk.
After Milk"s assassination, Robinson was co-executor, with Scott Smith, of Milk"s last will and testament. As of 2008, he was the author of 16 books, the editor of two others, and has penned numerous articles Three of his novels have been made into movies.
The Power (1956) was a supernatural science fiction and government conspiracy novel about people with superhuman skills, filmed in 1968 as The Power.
The technothriller The Glass Inferno, co-written with Thomas North. Scortia, was combined with Richard Martin Stern"s The Tower to produce the 1974 movie The Towering Inferno. The Gold Crew, also co-written Scortia, was a tense nuclear threat thriller and was filmed as an National Broadcasting Company miniseries re-titled The Fifth Missile.
Besides The Glass Inferno and The Gold Crew, he collaborated on several other works with Scortia, including The Prometheus Crisis, The Nightmare Factor, and Blow-Out. More recent works include The Dark Beyond the Stars (1991), and an updated version of The Power (2000), which closely followed Waiting (1999), a novel with similar themes to The Power.
His newest novel is a medical thriller about organ theft called The Donor.
In 2009 he was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.
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Served with United States Navy, 1944-1946, 50-52. Member Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha (president 1949-1950).