{"id":6970,"date":"2015-08-13T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2015-08-13T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:00:03","slug":"life-after-lovecraft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/life-after-lovecraft-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Life after Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6989\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Sonia-and-Nathaniel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6989 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Sonia-and-Nathaniel-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonia and Nathaniel Davis, circa 1936.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sonia Haft Davis (1883-1972) would have lived her life in relative obscurity but for her 2-year marriage to a man named Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). \u00a0 Lovecraft was a science fiction and horror writer whose work has created a significant and active fan base.\u00a0 To preserve her own literary output and the work of her third husband, Nathaniel A. Davis, Sonia donated materials documenting their lives to Brown University.\u00a0 Those papers are now available for research in the\u00a0<a title=\"Sonia H. and Nathaniel A. Davis papers (MS.2012.003)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.riamco.org\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2012.003&amp;view=title\">Sonia H. and Nathaniel A. Davis papers (MS.2012.003)<\/a> at the <a title=\"John Hay Library\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Hay Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those looking for information about H.P. Lovecraft in the papers of his ex-wife will be disappointed.\u00a0 The bulk of the materials in this collection document the life of Sonia Davis from 1930 to 1972, during which time she lived in California and was married to Nathaniel A. Davis. Sonia and Nathaniel were both devoted to the idea of world peace and wrote numerous articles and poems promoting that goal.\u00a0 Nathaniel founded\u00a0Planetaryan, a humanitarian organization devoted to world peace, for which Sonia was the chief administrator.\u00a0 The collection is a good source of documentation for anyone interested in U.S. social, political and religious history, especially around the period of World War II. It is also useful for researchers interested in American literature, especially religious poetry and didactic literature.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the life of Sonia Haft Davis contact <a title=\"Christopher Geissler\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/collatoz\/info.php?id=486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Geissler,<\/a> Librarian for American and British Literary and Popular Culture Collections, or visit the <a title=\"John Hay Library\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Hay Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonia Haft Davis (1883-1972) would have lived her life in relative obscurity but for her 2-year marriage to a man named Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). \u00a0 Lovecraft was a science fiction and horror writer whose work has created a significant and active fan base.\u00a0 To preserve her own literary output and the work of her <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/life-after-lovecraft-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Life after Lovecraft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,20],"tags":[81,102,130],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-resources","category-hay","category-special-collections","tag-hay-2","tag-lovecraft","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}