Keith Monroe (22 August 1915 – 30 August 2003) was an American author of children's science fiction and of books and magazine articles about Boy Scouting.^[1]

Monroe attended Stanford University and UCLA. 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.^{[citation needed]}

His work appeared in such magazines as Saturday Evening Post, New Yorker, |Harper's, Blue Book, Galaxy, Argosy, Boys' Life, and Scouting. His pseudonyms included Donald Keith, Rice E. Cochran, and Dale Colombo.^[2]

Monroe was deeply involved with Scouting. He served as Scoutmaster for Troop 2 in Santa Monica, California from its founding in December 1945 until 1987.^[1]

He wrote articles for Scouting, the magazine for adult Scout leaders; merit badge instruction pamphlets; and fiction for Boys' Life. Under the name Rice E. Cochran, he published Be Prepared!, a humorous memoir of his experiences as a Scoutmaster.It was the basis for the 1953 movie Mister Scoutmaster.^[1]

Monroe was a recipient of the Silver Beaver Award.^[2]

Collaborating under the pseudonym Donald Keith with his father, Donald Monroe, Keith Monroe wrote the Time Machine series, originally published in Boys' Life between 1959 and 1989.^[2]

Donald Keith also contributed stories to Galaxy Science Fiction and Blue Book.^{[citation needed]}

Using the pseudonym Dale Colombo, Keith Monroe published in Boys' Life a series about Scouts in space, featuring a protagonist named Ed 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.^{[citation needed]}

• Harman, Bob; Monroe, Keith (1950). Use Your Head in Tennis. Crowell. ISBN 9780690005844.
• Cochran, Rice E. (1952). Be prepared!: The life and illusions of a scoutmaster. Random House.
• Monroe, Donald; Monroe, Keith (1962). How to Succeed in Community Service. Lippincott. ASIN B001UXCLWG.
• Monroe, Keith (1963). California: How to Live, Work, and Have Fun in the Golden State. Random House. ASIN B000L1V4FS.
• Keith, Donald (1963). Mutiny in the Time Machine. illustrated by Marilyn Miller. Random House. ASIN B0007E9SWA.
• Keith, Donald (1967). Time Machine to the Rescue. illustrated by Albert Orbaan. Putnam. ASIN B0006BRBWS.
• Lindaman, Edward B.; Monroe, Keith (1969). Space: A New Direction for Mankind. Harper & Row. ASIN B00005WX6A.
• Hillcourt, William; Monroe, Keith (1980). The Official Patrol Leader Handbook (3 ed.). Boy Scouts of America. ISBN 978-0839565123.

• "Stories by Keith Monroe". The FictionMags Index. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
• "Stories by Donald Keith". The FictionMags Index. Retrieved November 20, 2018.

• Keith Monroe at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Mister Scoutmaster at IMDb 
• "Memorial page for Keith Monroe". Troop 2.
• "Obituary". Scouting.
• Higgins, William S. (ed.). "List of Time Machine stories". Archived from the original on July 21, 2011.
• Higgins, William S. (ed.). "List of Dale Colombo stories". Archived from the original on January 7, 2012.
• Rice E. Cochran at WorldCat with 1 catalog record