A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing.
Although a Conan novel was nearly.
Thereafter, until his death by suicide at age 30, Howard\'s writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he had become successful in several genres.
From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was 23.
A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing