{"id":22661,"date":"2019-01-28T07:21:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T04:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=22661"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:16:58","slug":"robert-e-howard-a-literary-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/01\/28\/robert-e-howard-a-literary-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One book I seem to have unintentionally overlooked, in my blog&#8217;s rolling survey of such in Sept\/Oct of last year, is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ThBF9r\">Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography<\/a><\/em> (Oct 2018). The new book is intended as a reliable and well-written introductory biography for those new to Howard and his work, and who are not historians. It weighs in at 250 pages as a trade paperback or budget Kindle ebook.  There&#8217;s a foreword by Rusty Burke, who praises the author and notes that the text was peer reviewed by Howard scholars. Howard&#8217;s fiction is stepped through in chronological sequence, with judicious plot summaries. Lovecraft and the backroom editorial matters at <em>Weird Tales<\/em> are covered adequately. The &#8216;deep background&#8217; on Howard&#8217;s family history and early childhood is briefly surveyed in only a few pages, as this material can now be found elsewhere in good form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"497\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One book I seem to have unintentionally overlooked, in my blog&#8217;s rolling survey of such in Sept\/Oct of last year, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/01\/28\/robert-e-howard-a-literary-biography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,33,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books","category-reh","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53838,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions\/53838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}