The People of the Black Circle: American modern Literature

Robert E. Howard

feb 2016 · American modern Literature Boek 10 · VM eBooks

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1 Death Strikes a King
2 A Barbarian from the Hills
3 Khemsa Uses Magic
4 An Encounter in the Pass
5 The Black Stallion
6 The Mountain of the Black Seers
7 On to Yimsha
8 Yasmina Knows Stark Terror
9 The Castle of the Wizards
10 Yasmina and Conan

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Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.

Howard was born and raised in the state of Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains with some time spent in nearby Brownwood. A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing. From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was 23. Thereafter, until his death by suicide at age 30, Howard's writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he had become successful in several genres. Although a Conan novel was nearly published in 1934, his stories never appeared in book form during his lifetime. The main outlet for his stories was the pulp magazine Weird Tales.