Facts: - caption: derleth as a young man - birth name: august william derleth - death date: july 4 , 1971 -lrb- aged 62 -rrb- - genre: fantasy fiction , horror , mystery , regional , science - birth date: february 24 , 1909 - name: august derleth - ethnicity: american - nationality: united states - image: august derleth portrait in youth.png - movement: cosmicism - occupation: novelist , short story writer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of august derleth .
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august william derleth -lrb- february 24 , 1909 -- july 4 , 1971 -rrb- was an american writer and anthologist .though best remembered as the first book 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 -lrb- which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the us that had only been readily available in the uk -rrb- , 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 .