Glenn Lord was an American literary agent, editor, and publisher of the prose and poetry of fellow Texan Robert E Howard, and the first and most important researcher and scholar of Howard's life and writings.
10 Facts About Glenn Lord
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Glenn Lord sought out earlier publications with Howard's work, most notably the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Glenn Lord became literary agent for the Howard heirs around March 1965 and served as such for 28 and a half years.
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Tirelessly promoting Howard's stories, Glenn Lord secured their publication in any promising venue, leading directly to the Howard Boom of the 1970s.
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Glenn Lord supplied texts to amateur publications and to literally hundreds of books and magazines in non-English languages, including Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Yugoslavian.
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An early admirer of Howard's poetry, Glenn Lord published the first Howard poetry collection Always Comes Evening through famed Arkham House, subsidizing the costs of the printing himself.
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Glenn Lord contributed much information to the latest bibliography, The Neverending Hunt, by Paul Herman and the online bibliography Howardworks.
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When Conan Properties was incorporated in 1978 to establish a single entity to deal with Hollywood in negotiations that led to the two Conan movies, Glenn Lord served as a corporate director.
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Glenn Lord befriended, assisted, advised, and mentored two generations of Howard fans, scholars, and editors, providing copies of his typescripts, letters, and vast knowledge to many of them.
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Glenn Lord served as Director Emeritus of the Robert E Howard Foundation and lived with his wife in Pasadena, Texas, where he died on December 31,2011.