   hugh barnett cave (11 july 1910 â 27 june 2004) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction who also excelled in other genres. ==life== born in chester, england, hugh b. cave moved during his childhood with his family to boston, massachusetts, following the outbreak of world war i.wolfgang saxon, hugh b. cave, prolific author, dies at 93. the new york times, 9 july 2004. his first name was in honor of hugh walpole, a favorite author of his mother, a nurse, who had once known rudyard kipling. cave attended brookline high school.adrian, jack. "obituary: hugh b. cave; prolific writer of pulp (`pure' supernatural, `spicy', sf, romance, westerns, hard- and soft-boiled detective fiction, weird-menace and shudder- pulp) over eight decades.", the independent, 30 june 2004. accessed 18 april 2008. "his astonishing career spanned all but the first couple of decades of the 20th century and into the 21st, his first published writing, as a 15-year-old student at brookline high school, massachusetts, being a short story in the boston globe entitled 'retribution'..." after graduating, cave attended boston university on a scholarship but had to leave when his father was severely injured. he worked initially for a self-publishing press, the only regular job he would ever have. he quit this position at age 20 to write for a living. from 1932 until his death in 1997, cave corresponded extensively with fellow pulp writer carl richard jacobi. selections of this correspondence can be found in cave's memoir magazines i remember. relations with his fellow pulp writers were not always so cordial. in the 1930s, cave lived in pawtuxet, rhode island, but he never met h.p. lovecraft, who lived in nearby providence. the two engaged in a heated exchange of correspondence (non-extant) regarding the ethics and aesthetics of writing for the pulps. at least two of cave's stories are loosely attached to lovecraft's cthulhu mythos â "the isle of dark magic" and "the death watch". during world war ii cave travelled as a reporter around the pacific and in southeast asia. following the war he moved to the caribbean, spending five years in haiti, aft
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