Lovecraft biography
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H. P. Lovecraft
American author (–)
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| Born | Howard Phillips Lovecraft ()August 20, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | March 15, () (aged&#;46) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Resting place | Swan Basis Cemetery, Providence 41°51′14″N71°22′52″W / °N °W / ; |
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| Genre | Lovecraftian horror, unlighted fantasy, eerie fiction, fear fiction, mythopoeia, science falsity, gothic fabrication, fantasy |
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| Years&#;active | – |
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (, ; August 20, – Step 15, ) was diversity American litt‚rateur of eerie, science, fancy, and hatred fiction. Be active is stroke known construe his product of description Cthulhu Mythos.[a]
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H. P. Lovecraft: A Life
Biography of H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi
"I Am Providence" redirects here. For the Nick Mamatas novel, see I Am Providence (Mamatas novel).
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life is a biography of American writer H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi, first published by Necronomicon Press in The original one-volume edition was reissued in , with a new afterword by Joshi.
A new revised/uncut edition (as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft) (2 vols) was issued in (Hippocampus Press); this restores , words cut for space reasons from the original edition, and is also thoroughly revised and updated in regard to new information on Lovecraft that has come to light since
The book largely supplants earlier efforts such as L. Sprague de Camp's Lovecraft: A Biography (). According to his website, Joshi regards this book his most notable achievement to date, followed by his The Weird Tale.[1]
Reception
[edit]When first published in , H. P. Lovecraft: A Life was regarded as a "meticulously researched"[2] biography of Lovecraft, taking account of all currently known facts about Lovecraft's life and work. It was met with critical praise; it elicited favorable comments from the horror author Ramsey Campbell and literary criti
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by S.T. Joshi
H.P. Lovecraft Centennial Guidebook
and appears here with S.T. Joshi’s permission.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born at 9 a.m. on August 20, , at his family home at (then numbered ) 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 His father was Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman for Gorham & Co., Silversmiths, of Providence. When Lovecraft was three his father suffered a nervous breakdown in a hotel room in Chicago and was brought back to Butler Hospital, where he remained for five years before dying on July 19, Lovecraft was apparently informed that his father was paralyzed and comatose during this period, but the surviving evidence suggests that this was not the case; it is nearly certain that Lovecraft’s father died of paresis, a form of neurosyphilis.
With the death of Lovecraft’s father, the upbringing of the boy fell to his mother, his two aunts, and especially his grandfather, the prominent industrialist Whipple Van Buren Phillips. Lovecraft was a precocious youth: he was reciting poetry at age two, reading at age three, and writing at age six or seven. H