奥古斯特·德莱斯

奥古斯特·威廉·德雷斯（英语：August William Derleth，1909年2月24日—1971年7月4日）是一名美国作家。他是H·P·洛夫克拉夫特的朋友，他成立的出版社“Arkham House”为洛夫克拉夫特出版了很多作品，也为克苏鲁神话体系的构筑做出过贡献。他自己则创作过梭克·普莱利传奇系列（Sac Prairie Saga）等不少作品。

生平

奥古斯特·德雷斯出生于美国威斯康辛州索克城，父亲名叫威廉·朱利叶斯·德雷斯（William Julius Derleth），母亲名叫罗斯·露易丝·福克（Rose Louise Volk）。他小时候就有写作的爱好，曾为《诡丽幻谭》撰稿。1930年自威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校毕业，获文学学士学位。

1941年，他成为《首府时报》编辑，直到1960年才退休，每年仍坚持写作。1953年4月6日与桑德拉·伊芙琳·温特斯（Sandra Evelyn Winters）结婚，六年后离婚，德雷斯负责抚养两个孩子April Rose、Walden William。

他在1971年7月4日死于心脏病，葬于索克城的圣阿洛伊修斯公墓（St. Aloysius Cemetery）。

外部连接

The August Derleth Society

Arkham House Publishers founded by Derleth

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August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre and helped found Arkham House, a publishing company which did much to introduce hardcover prints of United Kingdom supernatural fiction works to the United States. Derleth was also 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. He created the fictional detective Solar Pons, a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

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.

Life

The son of William Julius Derleth and Rose Louise Volk, who were of French-Bavarian and Prussian-Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, Derleth grew up in Sauk City, Wisconsin. He was educated in local parochial and public high school. Derleth wrote his first fiction at age 13. He was interested most in reading, and he made three trips to the library a week. He would save his money to buy books (his personal library exceeded 12,000 volumes later on in life). Some of his biggest influences were Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays, Walt Whitman, H. L. Mencken's The American Mercury, Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Scott, and Henry David Thoreau's Walden.

Forty rejected stories and three years later, according to anthologist Jim Stephens, he sold his first story, "Bat's Belfry", to Weird Tales magazine in 1926. Derleth wrote throughout his four years at the University of Wisconsin, where he received a B.A. in 1930. During this time he also served briefly as associate editor of Minneapolis-based Fawcett Publications Mystic Magazine.

Returning to Sauk City in the summer of 1931, Derleth worked in a local canning factory and collaborated with childhood friend Mark Schorer (later Chairman of the University of California, Berkeley English Department). They rented a cabin, writing Gothic and other horror stories and selling them to Weird Tales magazine. Derleth won a place on the O'Brien Roll of Honor for Five Alone, published in Place of Hawks, but was first published in Pagany magazine.

As a result of his early work on the Sac Prairie Saga, Derleth was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship; his sponsors were Helen C. White, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sinclair Lewis and poet Edgar Lee Masters of Spoon River Anthology fame.

In the mid-1930s, Derleth organized a Ranger's Club for young people, served as clerk and president of the local school board, served as a parole officer, organized a local men's club and a parent-teacher association. He also lectured in American regional literature at the University of Wisconsin and was a contributing editor of Outdoors Magazine.

With longtime friend Donald Wandrei, Derleth founded Arkham House in 1939. Its initial objective was to publish the works of H. P. Lovecraft, with whom Derleth had corresponded since his teenage years. At the same time, he began teaching a course in American Regional Literature at the University of Wisconsin.