Hardly anybody in Cross Plains knew the city once had a famous writer who grew up there until a reporter from Houston came to town inquiring about Robert E. Howard. “He’s the creator of the sword and sorcery genre,” says Arlene Stephenson, curator of the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains. He wrote a lot of fantasy.” Chances are there never would have been a Harry Potter series or ...
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