biography
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Lovecraft, H(oward) P(hillips)
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pseudonyms Lawrence Appleton, John J Jones, Ames Dorrance Rowley, Edward Softly
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| (1890–1937)
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| Writer, born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was self-educated and lived in Providence all his life, working as a freelance writer, journalist, and ghostwriter. During 1914–18 he was an astronomy columnist for the Providence Evening News and was the publisher of The Conservative magazine (1915–19, 1923). He was also president of the United Amateur Press Association (1917–18, 1923). Using many pen names, he contributed his supernatural/horror and science fiction/fantasy stories to various pulp magazines, but his reputation as a writer rests mainly on the 60 or so stories he published in Weird Tales, starting in 1923. Although not much appreciated in his day, he came to attract a small, sometimes fanatical following both in the USA and abroad, particularly France. |
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