# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-derleth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:54:17.470Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/august-derleth"
name: "August Derleth"
slug: "august-derleth"
description: "August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre and helped found Arkham House, a publishing company which did much to introduce hardcover prints of United Kingdom supernatural fiction works to the United States. Derleth was also a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography. Notably, he created the fictional detective Solar Pons, a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer, poet, editor, and anthologist (1909–1971)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1909-02-24"
deathDate: "1971-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump