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H. P. Lovecraft

1890 to 1937 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for H. P. Lovecraft across 3 places, from 1890 to 1933. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy, and science fiction.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place H. P. Lovecraft is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.

Where H. P. Lovecraft was documented, and when

20 August 1890exact date
Providence, Rhode Islandattested “Lovecraft was born in his family home on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island.” source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft
1 January 1925exact date
Clevelandattested “On January 1, 1925, Sonia moved from Parkside to Cleveland in response to a job opportunity, and Lovecraft left for a small first-floor apartment on 169 Clinton Street "at the edge of Red Hook"—a location which came to discomfort him gre…” source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft
1933 to 1936period
Californiaattested “Greene moved to California in 1933 and remarried in 1936, unaware that Lovecraft, despite his assurances to the contrary, never officially signed the final decree.” source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft

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Places H. P. Lovecraft is documented in

California1 presence · 1933Cleveland1 presence · 1925
Providence, Rhode Island1 presence · 1890

Other places tied to H. P. Lovecraft in the record

In each of these, a source puts H. P. Lovecraft and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that H. P. Lovecraft was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

April 1893month
Chicagomentioned “In April 1893, after a psychotic episode in a Chicago hotel, Winfield was committed to Butler Hospital in Providence.” source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft
April 1893month
Butler Hospitalmentioned “In April 1893, after a psychotic episode in a Chicago hotel, Winfield was committed to Butler Hospital in Providence.” source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft
1917year
United Statesmentioned “In 1917, as Lovecraft related to Kleiner, Lovecraft made an aborted attempt to enlist in the United States Army.” source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft
March 1919month
Butler Hospitalmentioned “In March 1919, she was committed to Butler Hospital, like her husband before her.” source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft
24 May 1921exact date
Butler Hospitalmentioned “On May 24, 1921, Susie died in Butler Hospital, due to complications from an operation on her gallbladder five days earlier.” source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft
August 1925month
Red Hook, Brooklynmentioned “In August 1925, he wrote "The Horror at Red Hook" and "He".” source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft

Documented at the same place, the same year

Paul NewmanCleveland · 1925Mária TelkesCleveland · 1925

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Sources

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