Also known as Robert Ervin Howard, REH, R. E. Howard, Robert Howard, Two-Gun Bob, Bob Howard, Patrick Mac Conaire, Steve Costigan
scrittore statunitense
Robert E. Howard was an American author who lived from 1906 to 1936 and is best known for creating influential fantasy and adventure stories, including the character Conan the Barbarian. His work became foundational to the fantasy and pulp fiction genres, shaping how adventure stories and heroic characters are written and imagined today.
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Robert Ervin Howard è stato uno scrittore statunitense.Viene considerato uno dei massimi esponenti della narrativa pulp del Periodo interbellico, in quanto importante autore di letteratura dell'orrore, grande interprete del romanzo d'avventura e iniziatore del genere heroic fantasy. Il suo personaggio di maggior successo è Conan il barbaro, che appare in un ciclo di ventidue opere tra racconti e romanzi. Sulla vita di Howard e sulla sua breve relazione con il regista ha tratto, nel 1996, il film Il mondo intero, con Vincent D'Onofrio nel ruolo dello scrittore.
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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
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