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Overview: H.P. Lovecraft: A Biography is a 1975 biography of the writer H.P. Lovecraft by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in February 1975.
The biography, 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 and unflattering and unbalanced by others. For instance, de Camp criticized Lovecraft’s resolutely non-commercial attitude to his writing, whereas Lovecraft deliberately maintained that the bulk of his writing was for his own amusement only and that of his close friends.
De Camp himself considered some of the criticism of his book as expressed in reviews of the hardcover had merit and accordingly altered the text in the paperback edition to take account of these criticisms. Altogether, de Camp cut about 13,000-16,000 words from the paperback edition. On the requirement of the publisher he also eliminated the notes section, bibliography and index, an excision he was reportedly unhappy about.
De Camp’s Lovecraft biography was preceded by August Derleth’s biography HPL: A Memoir (1945), and has now been largely superseded by S.T. Joshi’s more comprehensive treatment I Am Providence (2010), first published in abridged form by Necronomicon Press in 1996 as H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, which draws on decades of further scholarship by Joshi and others.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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