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The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard
Cover of the paperback edition The Miscast Barbarian published simultaneously with the hardcover edition.
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
IllustratorStephen E. Fabian, George Barr, Roy G. Krenkel and C. Lee Healy
Cover artistCharles McGill
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography
PublisherGerry de la Ree

Publication date

1975
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages44 pp

The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard is a biography by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover and trade paperback in 1975 by Gerry de la Ree.[1][2]

Summary[edit]

The work is an examination of Robert E. Howard, the famous fantasy writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian.

Relation to other works[edit]

The book is an expansion of de Camp's article "The Miscast Barbarian", which appeared in the magazine Fantastic in June, 1971. Later, in collaboration with Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin, he expanded the text again, into Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard (1983), the first major independent biography of Howard.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 195–196.
  • ^ Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 80–81.

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