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Robert E. Howard's legacy extended after his death in 1936. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Barbarian , has a pop-culture imprint that has been compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes , Count Dracula , Sherlock Holmes , and James Bond .
Robert E. Howard's legacy extended after his death in 1936. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Barbarian, has a pop-culture imprint that has been compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes , Count Dracula , Sherlock Holmes , and James Bond .
Jun 13, 2024 · Robert E. Howard, who based a prolific pulp-fiction career of the 1920s and ’30s at a backwater west of Fort Worth, is known today as the creator of Conan the Barbarian, a mythical warrior whose exploits symbolize Howard’s distaste for the industrialization of rural Texas.
Robert E. Howard's legacy extended after his death in 1936. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Barbarian, has a pop-culture imprint that has been compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
Jan 19, 2021 · Vick investigates Howard’s twelve-year writing career, analyzes the influences that underlay his celebrated characters, and assesses the afterlife of Conan, the figure in whom Howard's fervent imagination achieved its most durable expression. Read more.
- Todd B. Vick
By the time of his death, Robert E. Howard had been spinning his tales of myth and mystery for a mere dozen years, only four of which he devoted to his most famous creation, Conan. Yet today, over 60 years after his death, the adventures of the Hyborian hero and much of Howard’s other work endures.
The Foundation is organized to foster understanding of the life and works of Robert E. Howard. Its goal is to honor Howard’s legacy as a skillful, prolific and successful writer of fantasy, regional, horror, action and adventure stories in a wide variety of genres.
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