2022 Atlantean Award, Robert E. Howard Foundation You may not know
the name Robert E. Howard, but you probably know his work. His most
famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular
culture. In hundreds of tales detailing the exploits of Conan, King
Kull, and others, Howard helped to invent the sword and sorcery
genre. Todd B. Vick delves into newly available archives and probes
Howard's relationships, particularly with schoolteacher Novalyne
Price, to bring a fresh, objective perspective to Howard's life.
Like his many characters, Howard was an enigma and an outsider. He
spent his formative years visiting the four corners of Texas,
experiences that left a mark on his stories. He was intensely
devoted to his mother, whom he nursed in her final days, and whose
impending death contributed to his suicide in 1936 when he was just
thirty years old. Renegades and Rogues is an unequivocal
journalistic account that situates Howard within the broader
context of pulp literature. More than a realistic fantasist, he
wrote westerns and horror stories as well, and engaged in avid
correspondence with H. P. Lovecraft and other pulp writers of his
day. Vick investigates Howard's twelve-year writing career,
analyzes the influences that underlay his celebrated characters,
and assesses the afterlife of Conan, the figure in whom Howard's
fervent imagination achieved its most durable expression.
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