H.P. Lovecraft was an American poet and story writer who made a name for himself, albeit posthumously, as a writer of horror stories and it was this genre of literature for which he will best be remembered. He claimed that fellow American Edgar Allan Poe was THE major influence on his writing and it is easy to see why when you ...
Hugh McCrae was an Australian writer of poetry, plays, prose and material for a light operetta. He also produced a number of memoirs, most notably one that featured the exploits of his poet father George Gordon McCrae, and those of his father’s friends. Additionally he compiled extracts from the journals and diaries of his grandmother and had them published. He also had ...
Hugh Henry Brackenridge was a Scottish-born American who was most famous for his stellar career in the legal profession as well as his political achievements, but he did find time to pursue his literary interests as well. He was a poet and novelist and wrote what some called the first fictional view of the old west in his satirical novel Modern Chivalry. Additionally ...
Hubert Church was an Australian poet and novelist who spent much of his life working as a civil servant in Wellington for the government of New Zealand. He was born Hubert Newman Wigmore Church on the 13th June 1857 in Hobart, Tasmania. His barrister father, whose English family tree included the Civil War Parliamentarian John Hampden, had emigrated from Somerset to make a new life in ...
George Parsons Lathrop was a 19th century American writer and newspaper editor. His literary output included poetry, travelogues and novels. He was born on the 25th August 1851 on the Hawaiian island of Honolulu, the son of a physician. His upbringing must have been quite unsettling as he received his education firstly in New York City and then in the Eastern German city of ...
