Description: Good reading copy. Wear to cover edges and corners. Penned notes on two pages of front matter. 25 text pages (out of 480) have either a mark in the margin, underlined text, or a box drawn around a few lines or a paragraph. This biography relates a paradoxical, ironic literary life--that of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who never had a book of stories published in his lifetime, but who became a best-selling author after death...The author relates his peculiar upbringing, bizarre habits & preferences, his tragicomic careers, his role in the development of science fiction & his posthumous triumph--revealing how this strange neurotic man transformed his nightmares into the wonderful stories that have made him an influential & important literary figure... This biography was originally published in 1975 by Doubleday (hard cover). This abridged edition (bibliography, index,and some text removed) was published the following year.
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Publication Year: 1976
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: Lovecraft: A Biography
Author: L. Sprague de Camp
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Topic: Biography
