Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a wide range of genres. He created Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard was born and raised in Texas and spent most of his life in Cross Plains. He wanted to be an adventure writer from the age of nine, found success at twenty three, and then published widely in magazines. He died in 1936 at the age of thirty.