![]() ![]() Campbell’s seminal science fiction magazine, Astounding, and a good deal of his writing has been in that genre.ĭuring the 30s, Leiber and a friend, Harry Otto Fischer, created both the characters of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and the city of Lankhmar, with its surrounding lands. Lovecraft and Robert Graves, but during the 1940s, Leiber appeared regularly in John W. Early on, he was deeply influenced both by H.P. ![]() His father and namesake, besides being a theatrical actor, appeared in a number of films, often in character roles in adaptations of classic books such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and A Tale of Two Cities.įritz Junior also acted, as well as being a lay preacher and an expert chess-player and fencer, but eventually focused on writing. ![]() For many people, though, he’s pre-eminently the creator of swordsmen, rogues and adventurers, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.įritz Leiber Junior (as he was usually credited early in his career) was born in 1910, the son of Shakespearean actors. Leiber produced a large output of novels and stories, ranging between science fiction, horror and fantasy, which won numerous awards. The phrase, however, was never used by Howard it was coined many years after his death, in 1961, by arguably one of the best writers ever to contribute to the genre: Fritz Leiber Howard, with his stories of Conan and Kull. It’s generally accepted that, though there were precursors, the sword and sorcery genre was created in the 1920s and 1930s by Robert E. ![]()
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