# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:48:25.163Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 20, 1890, and watched his family's wealth evaporate after his grandfather's death, following years when his father had been institutionalized in 1893. His mother was institutionalized in 1919, leaving him with reduced means. A critical letter he wrote in 1913 to a pulp magazine pulled him into speculative fiction, and he married Sonia Greene in 1924, moving to New York City. The city wore him down mentally and financially; he returned to Providence in 1926 and spent his final eleven years writing. That last stretch produced The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time — stories built on cosmicism, his belief that humanity is insignificant against the cosmos. He held racist views for much of his life, and though his politics shifted toward socialism after the Great Depression, an elitism persisted. He died at 46 on March 15, 1937, virtually unknown, published only in pulp magazines. The scholarly revival came in the 1970s.