| rdfs:comment | - thumb|240px|Robert E. HowardRobert Ervin Howard (* 22. Januar 1906, †11. Juni 1936) war ein US-amerikanischer Autor von Fantasy-, Horror-, Abenteuer- und Westerngeschichten. Gilt als prominenter Vertreter der Low Fantasy (auch bekannt als Sword & Sorcery, Pulp Fiction und Heroic Fantasy).
- Robert Ervin HOWARD, germana aktoro kaj ĉeĥa esperantisto, (22-an de januaro, 1906 - 11-an de junio, 1936) estis usona verkisto de populara literaturo. Li estas ĉefe konata kiel la kreinto de Konano la barbaro, sovaĝa heroo de fantazia prahistorio sed li ankaŭ kreis aliajn karakterojn kiel Solomono Kano kaj Kullo, ĉiuj kinigitaj aŭ -otaj.
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Robert E. Howard File:Robert E Howard suit.jpg Gallery Real Name Robert Ervin Howard Job Titles Writer Gender Place of Birth Peaster, Texas, United States of America Creations Solomon Kane, Kull, Conan the Barbarian First publication Unknown
- Robert Ervin Howard wurde am 22. Januar 1906 in Peaster, Texas, USA geboren und starb am 11. Juni 1936 durch Suizid. Seine Eltern waren der Arzt Isaac Mordecai Howard und Hester Howard, geborene Ervin. Er ist der Autor von diversen Fantasy-, Abenteuer- und Horrorgeschichten, als auch einiger Western. Er ist einer der prominentesten Vertreter der "Low Fantasy".
- Robert E. Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was a writer and poet from Texas, USA. He wrote short stories and poems spanning several genres, including Heroic Fantasy, Western, Cosmic Horror and historical fiction. He was the Trope Maker for the genre Sword and Sorcery -- which, in fact, received its name from a discussion of what the genre that a Howard story was should be called. Along with JRR Tolkien, he is one of the most influential writers in modern fantasy. His life was the subject of the 1996 film The Whole Wide World.
- Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."
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| abstract | - Robert Ervin Howard wurde am 22. Januar 1906 in Peaster, Texas, USA geboren und starb am 11. Juni 1936 durch Suizid. Seine Eltern waren der Arzt Isaac Mordecai Howard und Hester Howard, geborene Ervin. Er ist der Autor von diversen Fantasy-, Abenteuer- und Horrorgeschichten, als auch einiger Western. Er ist einer der prominentesten Vertreter der "Low Fantasy". Seine Vorfahren waren größtenteils Iren, Engländer, Schotten und Dänen, wie 1931 aus einem Brief bekannt wurde. Robert E. Howard wuchs in West-Texas auf und blieb, bis auf wenige Ausnahmen, in dieser Region. Er arbeitete u.A. auf den Ölfeldern von Texas und als Baumwollpflücker, Cowboy, Verkäufer, Landvermesser, Journalist und in einem Rechtsanwaltsbüro, bevor er sich letztendlich der Literatur hingab.
- thumb|240px|Robert E. HowardRobert Ervin Howard (* 22. Januar 1906, †11. Juni 1936) war ein US-amerikanischer Autor von Fantasy-, Horror-, Abenteuer- und Westerngeschichten. Gilt als prominenter Vertreter der Low Fantasy (auch bekannt als Sword & Sorcery, Pulp Fiction und Heroic Fantasy).
- Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror." He is well known for having created — in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales — the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Between Conan and his other heroes Howard created the genre now known as sword-and-sorcery in the late 1920s and early 1930s,spawning a wide swath of imitators and giving him an influence in the fantasy field rivaled only by J.R.R. Tolkien and Tolkien's similarly inspired creation of the modern genre of High Fantasy. As a seminal figure in the history of modern fantasy, Howard remains a highly read author, with his best work endlessly reprinted. He has been compared to other American masters of the weird, gloomy, and spectral, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne , Herman Melville, and Jack London. In August 1930 Howard wrote a letter into Weird Tales praising a recent reprint of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" and discussing some of the obscure Gaelic references used within. Wright forwarded the letter to Lovecraft, who responded warmly to Howard, and soon the two Weird Tales veterans were engaged in a vigorous correspondence that would last for the rest of Howard's life. By virtue of this, Howard quickly became a member of "The Lovecraft Circle," a group of writers and friends all linked via the immense correspondence of H.P. Lovecraft, who made it a point to introduce his many like-minded friends to each other and encourage them to share stories, utilize each other's invented fictional trappings, and help each other succeed in the pulp field. In time this circle of correspondents has developed a legendary patina about it rivaling similar literary conclaves such as The Inklings, the Bloomsbury Group, and the Beats. Howard was given the affectionate nickname "Two-Gun Bob" by virtue of his long explications to Lovecraft about the history of his beloved Southwest, and during the ensuing years he contributed several notable elements to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos of horror stories (his Mythos stories include: "The Cairn on the Headland", "The Black Stone," "The Children of the Night" and "The Fire of Asshurbanipal"). He also corresponded with other weird tale writers such as Clark Ashton Smith , August Derleth , and E. Hoffmann Price. Throughout all of this time, Howard continued to be dogged by fits of increasing melancholy and depression, and he maintained his belief in the validity of suicide as an escape from the nightmarish pain. All of his close friends had married and were immersed in their careers, Novalyne Price had left Cross Plains for graduate school, and his most reliable market, Weird Tales, had grown far behind on payments. Most importantly, his home life was falling apart — after decades of struggle, his mother was finally nearing death, and the constant interruptions of care workers at home combined with frequent trips to various sanatoriums for her care made it nearly impossible to write. Several times in 1935–36, whenever his mother's health precipitously threatened to give out, he made veiled allusions to his father about planning suicide. Both parents made efforts to convince him to reconsider. In June 1936, as Hester Howard slipped into her final coma, her son maintained a death vigil with his father and friends of the family, getting little sleep, drinking huge amounts of coffee, and growing more despondent. On the morning of June 11, 1936, told by a nurse that his mother would never again regain consciousness, he walked out to his car in the driveway, took a borrowed .38 automatic from the glove box, and shot himself in the head. His father and another doctor rushed out, but the wound was too grievous for anything to be done. Howard lived for another eight hours, dying at 4 p.m.; his mother died the following day. They were both buried on June 14, 1936 in a double funeral in Greenleaf Cemetery in Brownwood, Texas. Howard's death sent shockwaves of grief through the weird fiction community, vividly documented in the pulps and fanzines of the era, and marked the beginning of the end of the Golden Age of Weird Tales. H. P. Lovecraft was severely affected by the death of his friend, and would die himself of intestinal cancer within a year. Clark Ashton Smith (the third member of the triumvirate of Weird Tales), was stricken by the deaths of Howard and Lovecraft as well as those of his own parents, and soon stopped writing fiction himself.
* Full biography [1]
- Robert E. Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was a writer and poet from Texas, USA. He wrote short stories and poems spanning several genres, including Heroic Fantasy, Western, Cosmic Horror and historical fiction. He was the Trope Maker for the genre Sword and Sorcery -- which, in fact, received its name from a discussion of what the genre that a Howard story was should be called. Along with JRR Tolkien, he is one of the most influential writers in modern fantasy. His life was the subject of the 1996 film The Whole Wide World. Howard was a friend and correspondent of HP Lovecraft and one of the contributors to the original Cthulhu Mythos. His most well-known creation is Conan the Barbarian, a character that has greatly overshadowed his creator. Howard committed suicide with a gun at the age of 30, after his ailing mother fell into an irrecoverable coma.
- Robert Ervin HOWARD, germana aktoro kaj ĉeĥa esperantisto, (22-an de januaro, 1906 - 11-an de junio, 1936) estis usona verkisto de populara literaturo. Li estas ĉefe konata kiel la kreinto de Konano la barbaro, sovaĝa heroo de fantazia prahistorio sed li ankaŭ kreis aliajn karakterojn kiel Solomono Kano kaj Kullo, ĉiuj kinigitaj aŭ -otaj.
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Robert E. Howard File:Robert E Howard suit.jpg Gallery Real Name Robert Ervin Howard Job Titles Writer Gender Place of Birth Peaster, Texas, United States of America Creations Solomon Kane, Kull, Conan the Barbarian First publication Unknown
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