L Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp, a SFWA Grand Master and winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, wrote the definitive biography of Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard. De Camp died in 2000.
L. Sprague de Camp, a SFWA Grand Master and winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, wrote the definitive biography of Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard. De Camp died in 2000. See less
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L Sprague de Camp book reviews
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Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy
By One of Their Own
by David B, Sep 11, 2015
This is a useful assessment of several writers who were critical to shaping heroic fantasy, or "sword and sorcery," in the end of the Nineteenth Century and first few decades of the Twentieth. As ... Read More
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The Ancient Engineers
Informative and No-Nonsense
by David B, Dec 22, 2011
As with de Camp's other nonfiction, I found this book clear, informative, and showing no mercy to superstitions regarding "ancient astronauts" and the like. The pyramids, for instance, were built by ... Read More