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    <![CDATA[Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard]]>
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    <![CDATA[Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, King Kull, and others that defined heroic fantasy, lived and died in the small town of Cross Plains, Texas. While his books remain in print, Howard himself has fallen into obscurity, his life mired in speculation and half-truth. This engaging biography traces the roots of his writings, correcting long-standing misconceptions, and offers a tour of Howard's world as he saw it: through his own incomparable imagination.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very useful new Biography of Robert E. Howard from Texas writer Mark Finn.  Finn focuses a lot on the Texas nature of Howard's writing, and is one of the first biographers to treat Howard's humorous stories with due respect.]]></body>
    
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