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H. P. Lovecraft

1890 - 1937

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: , UK: ; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. H. P. Lovecraft is the 155th most popular writer (down from 38th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from United States (down from 38th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Writer.

H.P. Lovecraft is most famous for his horror fiction, with works such as "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Colour Out of Space," and "The Dunwich Horror."

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Among writers, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 155 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry David Thoreau, Diogenes Laërtius, Emily Brontë, Carlo Collodi, Plautus, and Yasunari Kawabata. After him are Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Turgenev, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Tomas Tranströmer.

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Among people born in 1890, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 9. Before him are Agatha Christie, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lawrence Bragg, Vyacheslav Molotov, Friedrich Paulus, and Boris Pasternak. After him are Egon Schiele, Alfred Jodl, Karel Čapek, Fritz Lang, George II of Greece, and Kurt Lewin. Among people deceased in 1937, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 8. Before him are Guglielmo Marconi, Maurice Ravel, Pierre de Coubertin, John D. Rockefeller, Alfred Adler, and Antonio Gramsci. After him are Amelia Earhart, Erich Ludendorff, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lou Andreas-Salomé, George Gershwin, and Gustaf Dalén.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 135 out of 20,380. Before him are Isadora Duncan (1877), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), Henry David Thoreau (1817), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Michael Douglas (1944), and Noam Chomsky (1928). After him are Liliʻuokalani (1838), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), John Adams (1735), Woody Allen (1935), Jimi Hendrix (1942), and Robert McNamara (1916).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 18. Before him are Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Jack London (1876), Stephen King (1947), Ezra Pound (1885), Dr. Seuss (1904), and Henry David Thoreau (1817). After him are William Faulkner (1897), John Steinbeck (1902), David Woodard (1964), Pearl S. Buck (1892), Ray Bradbury (1920), and J. D. Salinger (1919).

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