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Revision as of 20:37, 1 February 2008
Sonia Haft Greene (16 March 1883 - 26 December 1972) was a one-time pulp fiction writer and amateur publisher, a single mother, business woman and successful milliner who bankrolled several fanzines in the early twentieth century. She is perhaps best known for being president of the Amateur Press Association, and her two-year marriage to American weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. After the marriage ended, Greene moved to the West Coast of the United States.
Greene was independently middle class, unusual for women of that time.[1] She worked as a milliner at a department store and traveled frequently for her job.[2] Her salary allowed her to rent a nice house for herself and her daughter in the then-fancy area of Brooklyn known as Flatbush. It also allowed her to donate money to several amateur press publications, as well as to travel to amateur press conventions (basically proto-science fiction conventions). She met Lovecraft at one such convention.[3]
Greene's best-known story is "The Invisible Monster," which was revised and edited by H.P. Lovecraft for publication in Weird Tales (November, 1923)[4][5]. She had a daughter named Florence Carol, who became a successful journalist. The two women had a tense relationship, and apparently never spoke again after Greene married Lovecraft. Greene does not mention her daughter in her autobiography.[citation needed]
Works
Poems
- "To Florence"
- “Mors Omnibus Comunis (Written in a Hospital)”
Stories
- "The Invisible Monster" (published in Weird Tales November, 1923) [6]
- "4 O'Clock" (not published until 1949 in Something About Cats and Other Pieces, a collection of work by and related to H.P. Lovecraft from Arkham House) [7]
Memoir
- The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft (written under the name Sonia H. Davis. This is purportedly about Lovecraft but is in fact simply a memoir of Greene's life.)
Essays/Editorials
From The Rainbow:
- "Amateurdom and the Editor"
- "Recruiting"
- "Opinion"
- "Commercialism"
- "Amateur Aphorisms"
- "A Game of Chess"
- "Heins versus Houtain"
From The Oracle:
- "Fact vs. Opinion" (an editorial against censoring pornography)
Editor/Investor
- The Organ of the United Amateur Press Association (amateur publication/fanzine)
- The Rainbow (amateur publication/fanzine)
Sources
- The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft, by Sonia Greene (Necronomicon Press, 1985) (ISBN 0-318047-18-7)
- H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, by S.T. Joshi (Necronomicon Press, 1996) (ISBN 0-940884-88-7)
Notes
- ^ S. T. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Life.
- ^ Sonia H. Davis, The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft
- ^ Sonia H. Davis, The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft
- ^ S. T. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Life.
- ^ Sonia H. Davis, The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft
- ^ S. T. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Life.
- ^ S. T. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Life.