George Julian Houtain

George Julian Houtain (26 November 1884-21 August 1945 George Julian Houtain at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database) was an American amateur journalist and President of the National Amateur Press Association (1915-17) who established the Home Brew magazine with his wife E. Dorothy MacLaughlin. 
As the editor of The Zenith, Houtain met H. P. Lovecraft in July 1920 at a Boston amateur convention. He wrote the article "20 Webster Street: Lovecraft" for the January 1921 Issue before meeting Lovecraft in Boston again on February 22, 1921.
He went on to establish Home Brew and was the first person to commission Lovecraft for a professional work of fiction (Herbert West--Reanimator).
==Selected Works==
===Non-Fiction Works===
*"20 Webster Street: Lovecraft" (1921)
*"Amateur Writings" (1921)
==References==
Category:Deceased (Real World)
Category:Editors