A good friend of Andrew Lang and Rudyard Kipling, Haggard collaborated with them on a couple of his works.
Influenced by the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson and Olive Schreiner, Haggard himself influenced many writers, such as mainstream author Graham Greene, and, perhaps more noteworthy for fantasy, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Philip José Farmer. Haggard's fantasies have influenced not only writers of novels but also writers of screenplays. Starting in his lifetime, filmmakers have returned repeatedly to his work, especially to King Solomon's Mines and She, not only in English but in other languages. Many children were introduced to these two works in Classics Illustrated comics in the 1950s, grew up to look for them in hardcover and paperback editions, and enjoyed reading the entire novels as adults. They are books that children may enjoy but that have even more to offer adults. Some of them are still in print in the popular fantasy and science-fiction market, more than one hundred years after Haggard's first fantasies were put on the market.
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