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Biography:
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry,detective fiction, science fiction, and biography.
A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing.
(From Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Derleth)
Works by August Derleth:
Novels
Sac Prairie Saga
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry,detective fiction, science fiction, and biography.
A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing.
(From Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Derleth)
Works by August Derleth:
Novels
Sac Prairie Saga
- Still is the Summer Night (1937)
- Wind Over Wisconsin (1938)
- Any Day Now (1938)
- Restless is the River (1939)
- Evening in Spring (1941)
- Sweet Genevieve (1942)
- Shadow of Night (1943)
- The Shield of the Valiant (1945)
- The House of Moonlight (1953)
- Murder Stalks the Wakely Family (1934)
- The Man on All Fours (1934)
- Three Who Died (1935)
- Sign of Fear (1935)
- Sentence Deferred (1939)
- The Narracong Riddle (1940)
- Bright Journey (1940)
- The Seven Who Waited (1943)
- Mischief in the Lane (1944)
- No Future for Luana (1945)
- Oliver, The Wayward Owl (1945)
- The Country of the Hawk (1952)
- The Captive Island (1952)
- Fell Purpose (1953)
- Death by Design (1953)
- Empire of Fur (1953)
- Land of Gray Gold (1954)
- Land of Sky Blue Waters (1955)
- The House on the Mound (1958)
- The Moon Tenders (1958)
- Wilbur, The Trusting Whippoorwill (1959)
- The Mill Creek Irregulars (1959)
- The Pinkertons Ride Again (1960)
- The Ghost of Blackhawk Island (1961)
- Sweet Land of Michigan (1962)
- The Tent Show Summer (1963)
- The Irregulars Strike Again (1964)
- The House by the River (1965)
- The Watcher on the Heights (1966)
- The Beast in Holger's Woods (1968)
- The Prince Goes West (1968)
- Three Straw Men (1970)
- For more of Derleth's extensive bibliography, follow links above
