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- By L. Sprague de Camp (Barnes & Noble Books). Originally published as Lovecraft: A Biography in 1975, this has long been the most prominent and available of Lovecraft biographies.
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H.P. Lovecraft (born August 20, 1890, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.—died March 15, 1937, Providence) was an American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Following this, in 1996, S. T. Joshi wrote his own biography of Lovecraft. This biography was met with positive reviews and became the main biography in the field. It has since been superseded by his expanded edition of the book, I am Providence in 2010. [239]
Apr 2, 2014 · Horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft wrote short stories, novels and novellas, including 'The Call of Cthulhu' and 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.'
Despite being relatively unknown by the general public, there is plenty of biographical information about Lovecraft available. This list includes mostly in-print volumes but also includes some of the more important out-of-print books. By H.P. Lovecraft (Necronomicon Press).
Mar 27, 2020 · Biography of H. P. Lovecraft, American Writer, Father of Modern Horror. Portrait of American author H. P. Lovecraft, taken in June 1934, by Lucius B. Truesdell. H. P. Lovecraft was many things: a recluse, a virulently xenophobic racist, and arguably the most influential figure in modern horror fiction. Lovecraft, who made very little money from ...
- Jeffrey Somers
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born at 9 a.m. on August 20, 1890, at his family home at 454 (then numbered 194) Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother was Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, who could trace her ancestry to the arrival of George Phillips to Massachusetts in 1630.
H. P. Lovecraft has been the source of unending fascination since his death in 1937. He himself chronicled many aspects of his life in thousands of letters, and they reveal every aspect of his actions and beliefs.
