Robert E. Howard’s Death – Cause and Date

The novelist Robert E. died at the age of 30. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

American author known for pioneering the “sword and sorcery” subgenre and for creating the character Conan the Barbarian.

He committed suicide after his mother, whom he loved, entered an irreversible coma.

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I became a writer in spite of my environments.

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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.