Keith Robertson

Keith Robertson, a famous American writer, was born in Dows, Iowa, in 1914. He was educated at the United States Naval Academy. After graduating from the Academy, he served in the United States Navy. During the war (1941–1945), he was an officer on destroyers. After the war, he became a freelance writer.

Keith Robertson’s boys are considered to be natural descendants of Tom Sawyer. They are bright, ambitious, inventive, never still for a moment. They are boys who never grow up, just as Tom Sawyer remains a boy forever. Keith Robertson’s characters remain children not in the magical way of Peter Pan’s Neverland agelessness, but simply because boyishness is their very nature.