I haven’t been through S.T. Joshi’s work on HPL’s life in a while, so I decided to undertake his massive tome, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life. Joshi’s work stands as the definitive effort to fully integrate and set the record straight on many points of HPL’s many facets. He comes off as a little of an apologist for some HPL’s greater errors on matters such as class and race, but he at least effectively deals with these issues and extensively works though HPL’s New York odyssey. What brings Joshi’s biography into its own is his exhaustive work to correlate HPL’s life with his philosophy and the influences on HPL’s work. It’s a facinating read at nearly 700 pages and is by far the most effective biography I’ve read of HPL to date.