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Robert E. Howard
Sign in to saveAlso known as Robert Ervin Howard, REH, R. E. Howard, Robert Howard, Two-Gun Bob, Bob Howard, Patrick Mac Conaire, Steve Costigan
American author (1906–1936)
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Robert E. Howard was an American writer who began his professional work period in 1924. He lived from 1906 to 1936. During his career, he published under several pseudonyms, including Patrick Ervin, Sam Walser, Patrick Mac Conaire, and Steve Costigan. His literary output includes works such as *Beyond Midnight*, *The Fantasy MEGAPACK ®*, *Young blood*, *Feast of Fear*, and *Conan il barbaro*.
Howard’s writings are associated with audiobook, gothic, horror, and fantasy genres. He is referenced by 896 other encyclopedia articles. His quotes include statements regarding torture and fanaticism.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1906
- Died
- 1936
- Works
- 667
Top works
- Beyond Midnight
- The Fantasy MEGAPACK ®
- Young blood
- Feast of Fear
- Conan il barbaro
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 551
- Total plays
- 19,751
Tags
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is most famous 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 instantly recognizable pop-culture imprint is rivalled by only a handful of other literary characters, such as Tarzan of the Apes
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,701x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,505x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,771x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,738x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,435x
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Quotes
- “Slowly he rose, mechanically wiping his hands upon his cloak. A dark scowl had settled on his somber brow. Yet he made no wild, reckless vow, swore no oath by saints or devils."Men shall die for this," he said coldly.”
- “"I have never yet done a man to death by torture, but by God, sir, you tempt me!"”
- “The gorilla-slayer moved out into the glade. Massive, terrible, he was the personification of the primitive, the Stone Age. His mouth yawned in a red cavern of a grin; he bore himself with the haughty arrogance of savage might.”
- “A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.”
- “The blare of the trumpets grew louder, like a deep golden tide surge, like the soft booming of the evening tides against the silver beaches of Valusia. The throng shouted, women flung roses from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of silver hoofs came clearer and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad white street that curved round the golden-spired Tower of Splendor.”
- “Like the surface of the sea was the mirror of Tuzun Thune; hard as the sea in the sun's slanting beams, in the darkness of the stars, where no eye can pierce her deeps; vast and mystic as the sea when the sun smites her in such way that the watcher's breath is caught at the glimpse of tremendous abysses. So was the mirror in which Kull gazed.”
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Robert E. Howard, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
Howard was born and raised in Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains, with some time spent in nearby Brownwood. A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing, eventually taking up amateur boxing; he also spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding. From the age of nine, he wanted to become an adventure fiction writer but did not have real success until he was 23. Thereafter Howard's writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he became proficient in several subgenres. He died by suicide at age 30 due to his mother's imminent death.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert E. Howard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.