Umberto> Robert E. Howard was an amazingly prolifuc pulp writer of the
late 1920s and early-to-mid 1930s. He created Conan, King Kull, Soloman
Kane, Breckenridge Elkins, and a host of others. He was very attached to
his mother, one might say unnaturally so, and when she died, he went
out into the desert and blew his brains out at the ripe old age of 30.
He was "rediscovered" in the late 1960s, and for a while there was the
most prolific dead author around, as just about everything he ever wrote
-- and there was a ton of it -- came out in book form.
I'll add an editorial comment: as his best, he was really pretty good.
Certainly a cut above most pulpsters.
-- Mike Resnick
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