Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Voracious reading, along with a natural talent for prose writing and the encouragement of teachers, conspired to create in Howard an interest in becoming a professional writer. One by one he discovered the authors that would influence his later work: Jack London and Rudyard Kipling. It's clear from Howard's earliest writings and the recollections of his friends that he suffered from severe depression from an early age. Friends recall him defending the act of suicide as a valid alternative as early as eighteen years old, while many of his stories and poems have a suicidal gloom and intensity that seem prescient in hindsight, describing such an end not as a tragedy but as a release from hell on earth.
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(1906-1936) Robert Erwin Howard was born and rasied in rural Texas, where he lived all his life. The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at the age of fifteen. Howard killed himself in June 1936 when he learned that his beloved mother had fallen into a coma.
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This review is from: Worms of the Earth. (Paperback)
For those who grew up on this stuff, it's a blast from the past.
You either like it, or you don't. Of course it's too bad the so-called science of Howard's time didn't fully apreciate that the Picts were the very same people living in Scotland today .. which explains why the Romans pulled back and built a huge wall to cringe behind while they celebrated their so-called victory. But I do love the myths Howard created .. he was one of the greatest fantasy writers of all time. Also, when the seller says 'like new', they mean it. My copy looks brand new.
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