Glenn Lord has been an agent, editor, and publisher of the prose and poetry of fellow Texan Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), and the first and most important researcher and scholar of Howard’s life and writings.
Lord was born November 17, 1931 in Pelican, De Soto Parish, Louisiana. A Korean vet and a paper warehouse manager by trade, he discovered Howard through Skull-Face and Others (1946) around 1951. He sought out earlier publications with REH’s ...
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Glenn Lord has been an agent, editor, and publisher of the prose and poetry of fellow Texan Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), and the first and most important researcher and scholar of Howard’s life and writings.
Lord was born November 17, 1931 in Pelican, De Soto Parish, Louisiana. A Korean vet and a paper warehouse manager by trade, he discovered Howard through Skull-Face and Others (1946) around 1951. He sought out earlier publications with REH’s work, most notably the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. Starting in 1956, he scoured the country for all REH stories, poems, and letters. Over the course of his life he has amassed the world’s largest collection of such publications and original manuscripts (actually typescripts).
Lord became literary agent for the Howard heirs around March, 1965, and served as such for 28 and a half years. In 1965, he tracked down the contents of a Robert E. Howard’s famous storage trunk, those contents then owned by pulp writer and Howard friend E....
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