{"id":25308,"date":"2025-08-18T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25308"},"modified":"2025-08-17T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:11:27","slug":"library-addition-willard-m-olivers-robert-e-howard-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25308","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Willard M. Oliver’s Robert E. Howard Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a rare case of my buying a book from Amazon:<\/p>\n

(Howard, Robert E.) Willard M. Oliver. Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author<\/b><\/a>. University of North Texas Press, 2025. First edition hardback (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” numberline), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Hefty 580 page biography of Howard that’s gotten lots of praise in the various REH-adjacent bibliographic groups I visit on Facebook. Bought for $20.80, a hefty discount off the $40 list price. <\/p>\n

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This is the fourth full-length biography of Howard I own, including the Mark Finn, Novalyne Price and de Camp et. al. biographies (plus two shorter ones<\/a>), none of which I’ve read yet. I’ll probably read the considerably shorter Finn biographer before this one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a rare case of my buying a book from Amazon: (Howard, Robert E.) Willard M. Oliver. Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author. University of North Texas Press, 2025. First edition hardback (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” numberline), a Fine copy in a Fine dust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137],"tags":[9,1708,1973,1983,1064,44],"class_list":["post-25308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-amazon","tag-biography","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-reference-works","tag-robert-e-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25323,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25308\/revisions\/25323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}