Lovecraft: a Biography
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 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 |
| Released | 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.
[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
