![]() In a Lamb story, honor and loyalty to one's comrades-in-arms were more important than cultural identity, although often his protagonists ended up risking their lives to protect the cultures that had spurned them. Most of his protagonists were outsiders or outcasts apart from civilization, and all but a very few were skilled swordsmen and warriors. While his adventure stories had familiar tropes such as tyrannical rulers and scheming priests, he avoided the simplistic depiction of foreign or unfamiliar cultures as evil many of his heroes were Mongolian, Indian, Russian or Muslim. ![]() His stories were well-researched and rooted in their time, often featuring real historical characters, but set in places unfamiliar and exotic to most of the western audience reading his fiction. Lamb's prose was direct and fast-paced, in stark contrast to that of many other contemporary adventure writers. The majority of Harold Lamb's work for Adventure was historical fiction, and his stories can be thematically divided into three categories - those featuring Cossacks, Crusaders, or Asian/Middle-Eastern Protagonists. The editor of Adventure, Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, praised Lamb's writing ability, describing him as "always the scholar first, the good fictionist second". Fiction Īlthough Harold Lamb wrote short stories for a variety of magazines between 1917 and the early 1960s and wrote several novels, his best known and most reprinted fiction is that which he wrote for Adventure between 19. He was also a screenwriter on many other DeMille movies, including The Buccaneer, The Golden Horde, The Plainsman and Samson and Delilah. DeMille, who employed Lamb as a technical advisor on a related movie, The Crusades. The success of Lamb's two-volume history of the Crusades led to his discovery by Cecil B. He also wrote articles for National Geographic and the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1927 he wrote a biography of Genghis Khan, and following on its success turned more and more to the writing of non-fiction, penning numerous biographies and popular history books. However, his stories were also published by Argosy, All-Story, Asia magazine, Collier's, Short Stories, and The Saturday Evening Post. In 1917, he began writing for Adventure magazine, his primary fiction outlet for 19 years, with some 58 stories being published. He began writing for pulp magazines, writing stories about the mountains of Afghanistan and the Russian steppes. ![]() Lamb built a career with his writing from an early age. Bunner medal in American literature in 1914. in 1916, he claimed it was only because he received Columbia University's H.C. However, Lamb almost flunked out of Columbia because he skipped many classes, spending much time instead reading for pleasure at the library. Anthony Hall), and was on the editorial board of Columbia Monthly, the university's literary magazine. He joined the literary fraternity of Delta Psi ( St. While there, he played on the soccer and tennis teams. His professors at Columbia included Carl Van Doren and John Erskine. In 1914, he attended Columbia University, where his interest in the peoples and history of Asia began. He grew to 6 feet 1 inch (185 cm) tall, with premature grey hair. He preferred reading historic epics in his grandfather's library. He was shy with impaired hearing, sight and speech as a child, attending the Friend’s Seminary in New York City, but declaring that he had not enjoyed the experience. Lamb Studios, a company that made stained glass. His paternal grandfather was an artist who started J. His mother was Eliza Rollinson, and his father was Frederick Lamb, a mural painter who designed stained glass.
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