Howard Phillips Lovecraft Biography
By Sebastian Gomez Paternina
Lovecraft was an American writer, novelist, poet and journalist, author of horror and science fiction stories and novels. He is considered a great innovator of the horror story, to which he contributed his own subgenre called cosmic horror that moves away from the traditional stories of the genre, to focus on a more existentialist terror in which Sci-Fi elements such as supernatural entities or other dimensions are included.
He was born August 20, 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. Only son of the merchant Winfield Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft. He came from a bourgeois family in decadence, which partly marked his elitist personality. When he was three years old his father died and his education fell on his maternal grandfather, who induced him the passion for reading. At the age of 15 he wrote his first work, The Alchemist, in imitation of gothic horror stories.
Due to poor health, he didn't go to school until he was eight years old and attended only two and a half years of high school. This prevented him from studying astronomy at Brown University. In 1914 he began publishing astronomical columns in the local newspaper, which opened the doors to amateur journalism and it allowed him to meet other writers who shared his tasta for horros and for his master Edgar Allan Poe.
His mother died in 1921, which was a strong shock for him. A week after this, he attended a convention of amateur journalists where he met Sonia Greene, the woman who later becomes his wife and, due to differences between them, they agreed to an amicable divorce in 1926.
At the end of February 1937, he was admitted to Providence Hospital for intestinal disorders. He finally died on March 15, at the age of forty-seven. He was buried in the family vault in Sawn Point Cemetery.
The following year he returned to Providence and lived with his aunt until 1933. Despite being invaded by the feeling of failure, loneliness and frustration, he wrote his best works such as The Call of Cthulhu or The Dunwich Horror.
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft Biography
By Sebastian Gomez Paternina
Lovecraft was an American writer, novelist, poet and journalist, author of horror and science fiction stories and novels. He is considered a great innovator of the horror story, to which he contributed his own subgenre called cosmic horror that moves away from the traditional stories of the genre, to focus on a more existentialist terror in which Sci-Fi elements such as supernatural entities or other dimensions are included.
He was born August 20, 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. Only son of the merchant Winfield Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft. He came from a bourgeois family in decadence, which partly marked his elitist personality. When he was three years old his father died and his education fell on his maternal grandfather, who induced him the passion for reading. At the age of 15 he wrote his first work, The Alchemist, in imitation of gothic horror stories.
Due to poor health, he didn't go to school until he was eight years old and attended only two and a half years of high school. This prevented him from studying astronomy at Brown University. In 1914 he began publishing astronomical columns in the local newspaper, which opened the doors to amateur journalism and it allowed him to meet other writers who shared his tasta for horros and for his master Edgar Allan Poe.
His mother died in 1921, which was a strong shock for him. A week after this, he attended a convention of amateur journalists where he met Sonia Greene, the woman who later becomes his wife and, due to differences between them, they agreed to an amicable divorce in 1926.
At the end of February 1937, he was admitted to Providence Hospital for intestinal disorders. He finally died on March 15, at the age of forty-seven. He was buried in the family vault in Sawn Point Cemetery.
The following year he returned to Providence and lived with his aunt until 1933. Despite being invaded by the feeling of failure, loneliness and frustration, he wrote his best works such as The Call of Cthulhu or The Dunwich Horror.