The man who created 'Conan'

From CNN.com

Texas town celebrates native son Robert E. Howard
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Monday, June 12, 2006;

CROSS PLAINS, Texas (AP) -- Along Main Street near a feed store and senior citizens' center emerges Conan the Barbarian, his dark hair flowing past his broad shoulders and his muscular arms clutching a sword dripping with blood.

It's certainly an unexpected sight in a rural West Texas community, but the library building mural symbolizes the town's claim to fame: native son Robert E. Howard, the character's creator.

Every June for the past 20 years or so, people from around the world have trekked here to attend lectures about Howard. They also tour the white clapboard house where he sat at a small wooden desk, peered out of the window at the peaceful West Texas prairie and on his Underwood typewriter spun tales of sword-wielding heroes from other centuries.

For this year, what would have been Howard's 100th birthday, organizers had been planning to expand the celebration to three days in hopes of attracting up to 300 fans, triple the attendance of recent years.

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