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From PNTOneline:

If you could choose any three fictional characters to come alive and meet you, who would they be? Lazarus Long (from science fiction author Robert Heinlein) because he was presented in story form as the longest-lived human being at 4,000-plus years. His perspective would be interesting to explore. And Mike Callahan and Jake Stonebender (from author Spider Robinson) come out of the same story. One’s an alien, and one’s a human, but both work to improve the lot of human kind on an individual basis.

From Reason

More often, though, the conversion stories include unplanned encounters with books: the writings of Ayn Rand, Robert Heinlein, and Robert Anton Wilson; moldy old Reader’s Digest versions of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom; used-bookstore copies of Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty; unsolicited Laissez-Faire Books catalogs.

<y two cents: I can vouch for this. I devoured Heinlein as a teenager and a young adult. Burt I grew up in a working-class household. Eventually, Heinlein’s basically libertarian values won out and I rejected knew-jerk libertarianism. I still lean toward the liberal among other libertarians.