Education
Monroe attended Stanford University and University of California, Los Los Angeles He worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, for advertising and public relations firms, and for North American Rockwell.
Monroe attended Stanford University and University of California, Los Los Angeles 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 His work appeared in such magazines as Saturday Evening Post, New Yorker, Harper"s, Blue Book, Galaxy, Argosy, Boys" Life, and His pseudonyms included Donald Keith, Cochran, and Dale Colombo. Monroe was deeply involved with He served as Scoutmaster for Troop 2 in Santa Monica, California, from its founding in December 1945 until 1987.
He wrote articles for, the magazine for adult Scout leaders.
Merit badge instruction pamphlets. And fiction for Boys" Life.
Under the name Cochran, he published, a humorous memoir of his experiences as a Scoutmaster. lieutenant was the basis for a 1953 movie, Mister Scoutmaster.
Collaborating under the pseudonym Donald Keith with his father, Donald Monroe, Keith Monroe wrote the Time Machine series, which were originally published in Boys" Life magazine between 1959 and 1989.
"Donald Keith" also contributed stories to Galaxy and Blue Book. Using another pseudonym, Dale Colombo, Keith Monroe published in Boys" Life a series about Scouts in space, featuring a protagonist named Editor 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.