![]() Around 1925, SMITH felt he needed to find a new direction in his writing, since his poetry wasn’t gaining him much recognition. SMITH, in turn, read a lot of Lovecraft’s short stories, both in manuscript and as they were published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, founded in 1923. Lovecraft in 1922, when Lovecraft wrote him a fan letter in which he waxed enthusiastic about some of his early poetry volumes. ![]() He began writing as early as 1904, producing both prose and poetry, but it was when he got in touch with George Sterling in 1911 that his career as a writer-and especially as a poet-took off. ![]() ![]() Born on January 13th, 1893, in Long Valley, California, CLARK ASHTON SMITH was wholly home-schooled, and heavily engaged himself in a remarkable course of self-education, teaching himself Latin and reading all the way through Webster’s unabridged dictionary. ![]()
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