Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Talbot Mundy. That upbringing bestowed a deep appreciation of Shakespeare in the young Fritz, but he was also reading-and being deeply influenced by-'trashy' authors such as H. I was pleasantly surprised to hear Fritz the Senior referenced in the movie, Best in Show, a half-century after his death. Lovecraft was a fan-but Fritz the Elder also starred in numerous movies. His father, Fritz Leiber, Sr., was quite famous as a stage actor-H.P. Without a doubt, a career and life worth remembering.įritz Leiber-Fritz Leiber, Jr., to be exact-grew up in Chicago, the son of two Shakespearean actors. At the venerable age of eighty-one, he left behind him a truly great legacy in the fields of fantasy, science fiction and horror, not to mention the realms of literary criticism and role-playing games. Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of when Fritz Leiber departed this mortal coil.
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