martes, 19 de junio de 2012

Biography of Lovecraft - A story to tell 1st part

H.P.Lovecraft was born in August 20, 1890 in Providence (Capital of Rhode Island in United States) at 9:00 a.m. He was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft (His father) and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft (His mother). When Lovecraft was three, his father became acutely psychotic in a Chicago hotel room while on a business trip. His father was taken back to Providence and placed in the Butler Hospital, where he remained until his death in 1898. Lovecraft assumed that his father died in a paralysis condition brought by a nervous exhaustion due to overwork. After his father's hospitalization, Lovecraft was raised by his mother, his two aunts (Lillian Delora Phillips and Annie Emeline Phillips), and his maternal grandfather, Whipple Van Buren Phillips. Early at the age of three, Lovecraft was a prodigy reciting poetry and writing complete poems at the age of six. His grandfather encouraged his reading, providing him with classics such as One thousand and one nights and Bulfinch's Age of Fable. Lovecraft was frequently ill as a child. Due to his sickly condition, he barely attended school until he was eight years old, and then was withdrawn after a year. During this period, he read a lot and became specially enamored of astronomy and chemistry and then he produced several hectographed publications with "The Scientific Gazette". Four years later, he returned to school at Hope High School (Rhode Island). It's believed that then he has suffered a rare paranomasia disorder and nightmares, most of them probably inspired him later in his writing.

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