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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.
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I think I was in high school when I read (or tried to read) Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard by L. Sprague de Camp. It may have been my first taste of a really shitty biography, although--at the time--I had nothing else to really compare it to (Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture is another serious clunker). I basically hate armchair psychoanalysis and weird Freudian analysis of authors and their deep, dark secret psyches.
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I really enjoyed this look at the life of Robert E. Howard. It seemed far more balanced and scholarly than any other biography of Howard I have ever read. Top notch work. Now, this is how one should write a biography. Engaging to the last, it kept me going even though I have other pressing matters at hand to do.
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