Robert E. Howard
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| Name: | Robert E. Howard |
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| Occupation: | Author |
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| Works: | Conan the Barbarian, others |
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| On Fanlore: | Related pages |
Robert E. Howard was an early pulp author best known for his creation Conan the Barbarian. He is considered the father of the Sword and Sorcery genre, later known as Heroic Fantasy. Most of his work appeared in Weird Tales, and he was also a member of the Lovecraft circle who contributed to the Cthulhu Mythos.
Howard died of suicide in 1936, and his worldbuilding essay The Hyborian Age was published shortly afterward by The Phantagraph.