And the world opens up in a way that is consistent with a certain point of view.”–Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth And then you can go read what he had read.

“When you find an author who really grabs you, read everything he has done…. I would like to respectfully and gratefully dedicate this work to the folks who got it all started:Īnd to the guys who got ME started on it: His mother had been ill with tuberculosis his entire life, and upon learning she had entered a coma from which she was not expected to wake, he walked out to his car and shot himself in the head.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | INTRODUCTION | EXPLANATORY NOTESĪ | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | ZĪPPENDIX THREE: BOOKS DONATED TO REH COLLECTION AFTER HIS DEATHĪPPENDIX FOUR: BOOKS NOTED BY ACCESSION LIST BUT PROBABLY NOT PART OF REH COLLECTIONĪPPENDIX FIVE: THE HOWARD PAYNE COLLEGE ACCESSION LISTĪPPENDIX SIX: THE INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURE LIBRARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Howard's suicide and the circumstances surrounding it have led to speculation about his mental health. Howard remains a highly read author, with his best works still reprinted. With Conan and his other heroes, Howard created the genre now known as sword and sorcery, spawning many imitators and giving him a large influence in the fantasy field. In the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales, Howard created Conan the Barbarian. The main outlet for his stories was the pulp magazine Weird Tales. Although a Conan novel was nearly published in 1934, his stories never appeared in book form during his lifetime. Thereafter, until his death by suicide at age 30, Howard's writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he had become successful in several genres. From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was 23.

A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains with some time spent in nearby Brownwood. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.

A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.

200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.

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