Cover artist Charles McGill Publication date 1975 Genres Biography Publisher Gerry de la Ree | Language English Originally published 1975 Country United States Name The Barbarian | |
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Illustrator Stephen E. Fabian, George Barr, Roy G. Krenkel and C. Lee Healy Role Book by L. Sprague de Camp Similar L Sprague de Camp books, Biographies | ||
The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard is a biography of the writer Robert E. Howard by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover and trade paperback in 1975 by Gerry de la Ree.
The work is an examination of the famous fantasy writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian. It 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.
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