Although Cross Plains did not have a library, Robert managed to acquire books wherever and whenever he could. Robert escaped the anxieties of this hardscrabble life through a voracious passion for reading and storytelling. When Robert was thirteen, the Howards settled in Cross Plains, Texas, an oil boomtown where violence and crime were endemic. His father’s wanderlust caused the family to move often, and his mother was chronically ill due to tuberculosis. 15)īorn in 1906, Robert had a hard-knock childhood that served as fuel for his innate creative talent. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings saga.” ( Blood and Thunder, p. In fact, his stories have been hailed as “some of the most influential fantasy writing of the twentieth century, second only to J. Howard is renowned among fantasy fans as the creator of such memorable “Sword and Sorcery” characters as Conan the Cimmerian, Kull of Atlantis, and Solomon Kane.
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