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I am not posting this in the SF/Fantasy/Horror board for though Howard wrote plenty of that for the pulps, he also wrote Westerns, boxing stories, and historical adventure fiction, plus some things that are hard to categorize.
Had he not taken his own life at age 30, he might have become an important regional writer, perhaps doing for his part of Texas what William Faulkner did for Mississippi. Some of his correspondence with fellow writers in his final years suggested that.
It is nice to know that he is finally being taken seriously in the academic world, and that the Library of America I believe is issuing a collection of his stories.
I discovered Howard many, many years ago, and quickly fell under his spell. He has been called the greatest of all pulp fiction writers. I call him simply a great writer. I can read his stories over and over, something I cannot say about many writers.
One Who Walked Alone, by his girlfriend Novalyne Price Ellis, I highly recommend. The movie The Whole Wide World starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Renee Zellweger was based on it.
DelRey books has fine quality paperbacks of many of his stories, just as he wrote them,and as they originally apppeared in Weird Tales and other magazines. His most well-known hero is of course Conan the Cimmerian- but please do not judge Howard based on the movies starring a certain California governor!
Other works of his are published under the imprint Bison Books by the University of Nebraska Press, a respected publisher of books on Western history and culture.
Was just wondering if we have other Howard fans here.
Had he not taken his own life at age 30, he might have become an important regional writer, perhaps doing for his part of Texas what William Faulkner did for Mississippi. Some of his correspondence with fellow writers in his final years suggested that.
It is nice to know that he is finally being taken seriously in the academic world, and that the Library of America I believe is issuing a collection of his stories.
I discovered Howard many, many years ago, and quickly fell under his spell. He has been called the greatest of all pulp fiction writers. I call him simply a great writer. I can read his stories over and over, something I cannot say about many writers.
One Who Walked Alone, by his girlfriend Novalyne Price Ellis, I highly recommend. The movie The Whole Wide World starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Renee Zellweger was based on it.
DelRey books has fine quality paperbacks of many of his stories, just as he wrote them,and as they originally apppeared in Weird Tales and other magazines. His most well-known hero is of course Conan the Cimmerian- but please do not judge Howard based on the movies starring a certain California governor!
Other works of his are published under the imprint Bison Books by the University of Nebraska Press, a respected publisher of books on Western history and culture.
Was just wondering if we have other Howard fans here.
