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I Am Providence - The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1 (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)
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I Am Providence - The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1 (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born to a well-to-do family in
Providence, Rhode Island. As a child, he revealed remarkable
precocity in his early interests in literature and science.
Ill-health dogged him in youth, rendering his school attendance
sporadic; and in 1908 he experienced a nervous breakdown that
rendered him a virtual recluse for several years. In 1914 he
discovered the world of amateur journalism and began slowly
emerging from his hermitry. He wrote tremendous amounts of essays,
poetry, and other work; in 1917, under the encouragement from W.
Paul Cook and others, he resumed the writing of horror fiction, and
his career as a dream-weaver began anew. In 1921 Lovecraft met his
future wife, Sonia H. Greene, at an amateur journalism convention.
It was at this time that he began expanding his horizons, both
geographical and intellectual: he traveled widely, from New England
to New York to Cleveland; and he absorbed such literary and
intellectual influences as Lord Dunsany, Friedrich Nietzsche, and
Arthur Machen. In 1924 he and Sonia decided to marry, and Lovecraft
moved to New York to pursue his literary fortune. But, as the first
volume of this biography concludes, his metropolitan adventure
would be bittersweet at best. S. T. Joshi's award-winning biography
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996) provided the most detailed portrait
of the life, work, and thought of the dreamer from Providence ever
published. But that edition was in fact abridged from Joshi's
original manuscript, and this expanded and updated two-volume
edition restores the 150,000 words that Joshi omitted and, in
addition, updates the texts with new findings.
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