Harold Richard Preece was an American writer notable for his early involvement in civil rights, his status as an authority in American folklore and Western histories, and his friendship with Robert E Howard, the creator of Conan the Cimmerian.
12 Facts About Harold Preece
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Harold Preece was a ministerial student at Texas Christian University with special studies at the University of Texas.
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Harold Preece met poet Winona Morris Nation in 1978, with whom he lived in later years.
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Harold Preece developed Alzheimer's disease towards the end of his life, and died less than a month after Winona in 1992.
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Harold Preece was cremated and his ashes scattered on Winona's grave in the Spring of 1993.
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Harold Preece is buried at Hillcrest Cemetery, on a hill overlooking Comanche, Oklahoma.
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Harold Preece assisted John and Alan Lomax in collecting archives of American folk music for the Library of Congress.
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Harold Preece was the folklore editor of the Federal Writers' Project in Texas.
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Harold Preece described his evolution from prejudice to anti-racism in the August 1935 article "Confessions of an Ex-Nordic: The Depression Not an Unmixed Evil," which appeared in Opportunity, the monthly journal of the National Urban League.
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Harold Preece continued his support for civil rights in New Masses as well.
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Harold Preece was a regular in Sepia well into the 1980s.
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Glenn Lord, later Howard's posthumous literary agent, corresponded with Harold Preece, and included contributions by him in The Howard Collector and the bio-bibliography The Last Celt.