The Miscast Barbarian

The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard  

Cover of the paperback edition The Miscast Barbarian published simultaneously with the hardcover edition.
Author(s) L. Sprague deCamp
Illustrator Stephen E. Fabian, George Barr, Roy G. Krenkel and C. Lee Healy
Cover artist Charles McGill
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Biography
Publisher Gerry de la Ree
Publication date 1975
Media type Print (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages 44 pp
ISBN NA

The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard is a 1975 biography of the writer Robert E. Howard by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published 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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