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	L. Sprague de Camp
Illustrator	Stephen E. Fabian, George Barr, Roy G. Krenkel and C. Lee Healy
Cover artist	Charles McGill
Language	English
Genre	Biography
Publisher	Gerry de la Ree
Publication date	1975
Publication place	United States
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 Gerry de la Ree.^[1][2]

The work is an examination of Robert E. Howard, the famous fantasy writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian.

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 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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