name: Robert E. Howard
birth_date: 1906-01-22 00:00:00
death_date: 1936-06-11 00:00:00
genres: Horror, Fantasy, History
influences: Eugene O'Neill, William Shakespeare, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Omar Khayyam, Euge, Jack London, Talbot Mundy, Leonid Andreyev
avg_rating: 4.06
ratings_count: 148804
about: 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. —WikipediaLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads data 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. —WikipediaLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ...more