Robert E. Howard
author profile
born
January 22, 1906
died
June 11, 1936
gender
male
place of birth
Peaster, Texas, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction, Horror, History
influences
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold,Rafael Sabatini,The Bible, Rudyard Kipling,Thomas Bulfinch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne,Jack London, Harold Lamb, H. Rider Haggard, Alexandre Dumas, père, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, G. K. Chesterton
about this author
Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."
He is well known for having created — in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales — the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
-Wikipedia
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
— Robert E. Howard
— Robert E. Howard
"I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
— Robert E. Howard
— Robert E. Howard
"My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed."
— Robert E. Howard
— Robert E. Howard
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