Lovecraft: a Biography
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| Lovecraft: a Biography | |
 Dust-jacket for Lovecraft: a Biography |
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| Author | L. Sprague deCamp |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Biography |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | xvi, 480 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0385005784 |
Lovecraft: a Biography is a 1975 biography of the writer H. P. Lovecraft by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published by Doubleday. The subsequent paperback edition (1976) from Ballantine Books was an abridgement, for which the author deleted a portion of the text, the notes, bibliography and index. De Camp was reportedly unhappy about having to remove the end matter.
The work, a warts-and-all examination of the famous horror and science-fiction writer, was the first major independent biography of Lovecraft. De Camp's approach has been called frank and judicious by some, unflattering and unbalanced by others. It has since been supplanted as the definitive Lovecraft biography by S. T. Joshi's H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996).
[edit] References
- Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 78.
[edit] External links
- "Lovecraft A Life (sic) by L. Sprague de Camp" - a book review by John Goodrich
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