Question: The author of "-And He Built a Crooker House-" is known by what nickname?
Context: Willow Shade, also known as the Willa Cather House, is a historic home located near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia.  The house was built in 1851, and is a two-story, five-bay-by-three-bay, rectangular brick dwelling in a vernacular Late Greek Revival style.  It has a three bay by two bay rear ell.  The house sits on an English basement.  It was the childhood home of author Willa Cather (1873–1947) and was built by her grandfather, William Cather.  She was born at the nearby Willa Cather Birthplace and resided at Willow Shade from 1874 to 1883 before moving to Nebraska. Robert Anson Heinlein ( ; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer.  Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", his sometimes controversial works continue to have an influential effect on the genre, and on modern culture more generally. Springhouse Farm, also known as the Eric Knight Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  The house is a Georgian style stone farm house built about 1808, with an addition built about 1941.  Other contributing buildings and structures are a stone and frame bank barn (c. 1810) with carriage house addition (c. 1890), stone spring house (c. 1810), stone root cellar (c. 1810), corn crib (c. 1895), man made pond (c. 1940), outdoor oven (c. 1940), and privy (c. 1900).  The property also includes the burial site for Toots, the dog that inspired the story ""Lassie Come-Home"."  Toots died in 1945, and the burial site marker was added about 1970.  Its author Eric Knight (1897-1943) resided at Springhouse Farm from 1939 to 1943. The Paine House is a historic house in Xenia, Illinois, which was the home of author Albert Bigelow Paine.  Built in 1858, the house was designed using elements of the Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles.  Paine lived in the house from 1873 to 1888; during this time, he began his writing career, authoring several stories and poems.  Several of Paine's works were published in Xenia's local newspapers, which inspired him to pursue his career.  Paine later became known for his close friendship with Mark Twain; Paine edited Twain's letters and wrote a multi-volume biography of the author.  As of the 1980s, the house was still owned and occupied by the descendants of Paine's family. Naulakha, also known as the Rudyard Kipling House, is a historic Shingle Style house on Kipling Road in Dummerston, Vermont, a few miles outside Brattleboro.  The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with the author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who had it built in 1893 and made it his home until 1896.  It is in this house that Kipling wrote "Captains Courageous", "The Jungle Book", "The Day's Work", and "The Seven Seas", and did work on "Kim" and "The Just So Stories".  Kipling named the house after the Naulakha Pavilion, situated inside Lahore Fort in Pakistan.  The house is now owned by the Landmark Trust, and is available for rent. <nowiki>'</nowiki>—And He Built a Crooked House—<nowiki>'</nowiki> is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein first published in "Astounding Science Fiction" in February 1941.  It was reprinted in the anthology "Fantasia Mathematica" (Clifton Fadiman, ed.)  in 1958 and in the Heinlein collection "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" in 1959.  The story is about a mathematically inclined architect named Quintus Teal who has what he thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs by building a house shaped like the unfolded net of a tesseract.  The title is paraphrased from the nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man". The Elizabeth Bishop House, also known as the Bulmer House, is an historic single-family house that today is used as an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia.  The house is associated with Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Bishop who in her youth lived in the house each summer with her maternal grandparents, William Brown Bulmer and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Bulmer.  Bishop based many of her stories (such as "In the Village") and poems (such as "Filling Station") on aspects of Great Village and Nova Scotia.  Although the Bulmers bought the property in 1874, it is not known when it was built.  On May 21, 1997, the Bulmer House was recognized as a Nova Scotia Provincially Recognized Heritage Site for its connection to Elizabeth Bishop and her writings as well as for its architectural significance; it is a good example of a typical 1 ⁄ -storey Classical Revival dwelling dating from between 1800 and 1850, a type common to rural Nova Scotia. The William Donnell Crooker House is an historic house at 71 South Street in Bath, Maine, United States.  Built in 1850 by the prominent local builder and designer Isaac D. Cole, it is a distinctive example of late Greek Revival architecture.  The Crooker family was involved with Bath's shipbuilding industry.  The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 1979. The Dr. J. A. Gorman House (also known as the Hanging Cottage) is a historic residence in Mentone, Alabama.  The house was built as a vacation home by Dr. Gorman in 1922.  In 1944 Gorman sold the house to local physician W. T. Cantrell, who practiced medicine in the house until 1979.  It got its nickname, the "Hanging Cottage", from its position on the brow of Lookout Mountain.  Part of the bungalow's foundation is a 22-foot (6.7-m) high rock wall on the brow side.  The house takes advantage of its view with 55 windows and a 15-foot (4.5-m) wide porch wrapping around the house.  The materials on the house also blend with the surroundings, such as its use of log timbers as porch supports and hand-cut stone chimney.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. McCord House, also known as the McCord-Oxner House, is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina.  It built in 1849, and is a 1 1/2-story clapboard Greek Revival style cottage, with additions made in the 1850s.  It sits on a stuccoed raised basement.  The front facade features a one-story portico supported by four stuccoed piers.  It was built by David James McCord (1797–1855), planter, lawyer and editor, and his wife Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord, a noted author of political and economic essays, poetry and drama.  In 1865, the McCord House became the headquarters of General Oliver O. Howard, who was General William Tecumseh Sherman’s second in command.
Answer: dean of science fiction writers