He joined the United Amateur Press Association (see APA) in 1914 and produced much of his early fiction in connection with this enterprise, which also allowed him to come in touch with Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long and others, for all of whom he was a major inspiration his own admitted influences included Robert W Chambers and Lord Dunsany. He was an important figure by correspondence in the careers of many authors who later published work clearly influenced by him and the correspondence between him and Robert E Howard illuminates these two solitary (but intensely communicative) figures. (1890-1937) US author who spent almost all his life in Providence, Rhode Island, maintaining extensive social contacts mainly by mail.
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