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    H. P. Lovecraft

    American author (1890–1937)

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    H. P. Lovecraft

    Lovecraft in 1934

    BornHoward Phillips Lovecraft
    (1890-08-20)August 20, 1890
    Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
    DiedMarch 15, 1937(1937-03-15) (aged 46)
    Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
    Resting placeSwan Point Cemetery, Providence
    41°51′14″N71°22′52″W / 41.854021°N 71.381068°W / 41.854021; -71.381068
    Pen name
    • Grandpa Theobald
    • E'ch-Pi-El
    Occupation
    • Short story writer
    • editor
    • novelist
    • poet
    GenreLovecraftian horror, dark fantasy, weird fiction, horror fiction, mythopoeia, science fiction, gothic fiction, fantasy
    Literary movement
    Years active1917–1937
    Notable works
    Spouse

    Howard Phillips Lovecraft (, ; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer

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    H. P. Lovecraft: A Life

    Biography of H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi

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    H. P. Lovecraft: A Life is a biography of American writer H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi, first published by Necronomicon Press in 1996. The original one-volume edition was reissued in 2004, 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 2010 (Hippocampus Press); this restores 150,000 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 1996.

    The book largely supplants earlier efforts such as L. Sprague de Camp's Lovecraft: A Biography (1975). According to his website, Joshi regards this book his most notable achievement to date, followed by his The Weird Tale.[1]

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    by S.T. Joshi

    This brief biography first appeared in the
    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, 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 ankomst of George Phillips to Massachusetts in 1630. 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, 1898. Lovecraft was apparently informed that his father was paralyzed and comatose during this period, but the surviving bevis suggests that this was not the case; it is nearly certain that Lovecraft’s father died of paresis, a form of neurosyphi