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August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft.
August Derleth (February 24 1909 - July 4 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as Howard Phillips Lovecraft's literary executor and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, Derleth was a prolific writer in several genres, including...
August Derleth was born 24 February 1909, in Sauk City, a small, largely German village, pleasantly situated on the west bank of the Wisconsin River in south central Wisconsin, one of two children of William Julius and Rose Louise (Volk) Derleth, who were, respectively, of French-Bavarian and Prussian-Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.
The August Derleth Society is a non-profit organization formed in the late 1970’s to actively preserve the rich memory of Wisconsin’s greatest and most prolific author.
August Derleth has 654 books on Goodreads with 180469 ratings. August Derleth’s most popular book is Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 2.
August William Derleth was a prolific Wisconsin author. His work includes novels, short stories, poetry, autobiography and memoir, biography, history, works for younger readers, and...
A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu ...
In [the] first volume, Lovecraft’s relations to one of his most prominent colleagues and disciples, August Derleth (1909–1971), are recounted in the hundreds of letters they exchanged beginning in 1926.
After Lovecraft’s death, August Derleth based a number of stories on fragments written by Lovecraft and published these as “posthumous collaborations” between Lovecraft and Derleth.
As a teenager, August William Derleth corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), and subsequently spent much of his life in projects aimed at preserving HPL's memory. He and Donald Wandrei formed Arkham House in December, 1939, in order to bring out an omnibus volume of HPL's work.
