Robert E. Howard
Birthday:
22 January 1906, Peaster, Texas, USA
Birth Name:
Robert Erwin Howard
Robert E. Howard created Conan the Barbarian in a series of short stories and novels in the 1930's. Born in Peaster, Texas, he was raised in Cross Plains. His fiction was carried in pulp magazines of the time such as Weird Tales, and H.P. Lovecraft was a friend and admirer of his. He committed suicide after holding vigil by his mother's d...
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Robert E. Howard created Conan the Barbarian in a series of short stories and novels in the 1930's. Born in Peaster, Texas, he was raised in Cross Plains. His fiction was carried in pulp magazines of the time such as Weird Tales, and H.P. Lovecraft was a friend and admirer of his. He committed suicide after holding vigil by his mother's deathbed in 1936. Show less «
All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre;
All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over, and the lamps expire. - Robert E. Howard's suicide note
The feast is over, and the lamps expire. - Robert E. Howard's suicide note
[Talking about the Conan character]: "He is the most realistic character I ever evolved. He is simply a combination of a number of men I hav...Show more »
[Talking about the Conan character]: "He is the most realistic character I ever evolved. He is simply a combination of a number of men I have known. Some mechanism in my subconscious took the dominant characteristics of various prize fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I called Conan the Cimmerian." Show less «
I hated school as I hate the memory of school. It wasn't the work I minded; I had no trouble learning the tripe they dished out in the way o...Show more »
I hated school as I hate the memory of school. It wasn't the work I minded; I had no trouble learning the tripe they dished out in the way of lessons - except arithmetic, and I might have learned that if I'd gone to the trouble of studying it. I wasn't at the head of my classes except in history - but I wasn't at the foot either. I generally didjust enough work to keep from flunking the courses, and I don't regret the loafing I did. But what I hated was the confinement - the clock-like regularity of everything; the regulation of my speech and actions; most of all the idea that someone considered himself or herself in authority over me, with the right to question my actions and interfere with my thoughts. Show less «
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