In his highly influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created in the fantasy genre, the fantastic literature that awakened a high profile and great popularity as "sword and sorcery". He brought to life one of the boldest and most enduring characters in Conan the Cimmerian. His tales shine with the grim, eerie light of a bygone age.

Robert Ervin Howard, born on 22 January 1906 in Peaster, Texas, died by suicide on 11 June 1936 in Cross Plains, Texas. He was an American author of fantasy literature, as well as several western novels. He is considered the inventor of sword and sorcery fantasy.Howard's professional career began in Texas with the usual field work as a cotton picker, cowboy, salesman, in a lawyer's office, as a surveyor to a journalist.