H. P. Lovecraft

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H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft AKA Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Born: 20-Aug-1890
Birthplace: Providence, RI
Died: 15-Mar-1937
Location of death: Providence, RI [1]
Cause of death: Cancer - Lymphoma
Remains: Buried, Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI

Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Call of Cthulhu

Horror writer, inventor of the Cthulhu Mythos.

[1] Jane Brown Memorial Hospital, Providence, RI.

Father: Winfield Scott Lovecraft (traveling salesman, d. 19-Jul-1898, syphilis)
Mother: Sarah Susan Phillips (d. 24-May-1921, complications of surgery)
Girlfriend: Winifred Virginia Jackson
Wife: Sonia Haft Greene (Ukrainian Jew, b. 16-Mar-1883, m. 3-Mar-1924, div. 1929)

High School: Hope Street High School (dropped out 1908)

Nervous Breakdown 1908
White Supremacists
Risk Factors: Depression

Author of books:
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1928, novella)
At the Mountains of Madness (1931, novella)
The Shadow over Innsmouth (1936, novella)

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