The Miscast Barbarian
![]() Cover of the paperback edition The Miscast Barbarian published simultaneously with the hardcover edition. | |
Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
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Illustrator | Stephen E. Fabian, George Barr, Roy G. Krenkel and C. Lee Healy |
Cover artist | Charles McGill |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Biography |
Publisher | |
Publication date | 1975 |
Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
Pages | 44 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 .[1][2]
Summary[]
The work is an examination of Robert E. Howard, the famous fantasy writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian.
Relation to other works[]
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 , he expanded the text again, into Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard (1983), the first major independent biography of Howard.
Notes[]
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- 1975 non-fiction books
- American biographies
- Books by L. Sprague de Camp
- Books about Robert E. Howard
- United States biography book stubs
- Writer book stubs