Edgar Hoffmann Trooper Price, (1898-1988), (July 3, 1898, Fowler, California – June 18, 1988, Redwood City, California) was a writer of popular fiction for the pulp magazine marketplace. Today he is perhaps best known for his collaboration with H.P. Lovecraft on "Through the Gates of the Silver Key." July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Fowler is a city located in Fresno County, California. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ...

Originally intending to be a career soldier, Price graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point; he served in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, and with the American military in Mexico and the Philippines. He was a champion fencer and boxer, an amateur Orientalist and a student of the Arabic language; science-fiction author Jack Williamson, in his 1984 autobiography Wonder's Child, called E. Hoffman Price a "real live soldier of fortune." The United States Military Academy, also known as West Point, or simply USMA (or Army, for NCAA purposes), is a United States Army fort and military academy. ... Alternate meanings: West Point (disambiguation). ... Officers of the American Expeditionary Force and the Baker mission The American Expeditionary Force or AEF was the United States military force in World War I. The AEF helped the French defend the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive in May. ... Combatants Allied Powers: France Italy Russia Serbia United Kingdom United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg Reinhard... Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, by Westerners. ... The Arabic language ( ), or simply Arabic ( ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... John Stewart Williamson (born April 29, 1908), who writes as Jack Williamson but has occasionally used the pseudonym Will Stewart, is considered the Dean of Science fiction. // Life Williamson spent his early childhood in western Texas. ...

In his literary career, Hoffman Price produced fiction for a wide range of publications, from Argosy to Terror Tales, from Speed Detective to Spicy Mystery Stories. Yet he was most readily identified as a Weird Tales writer, one of the group who wrote regularly for editor Farnsworth Wright, a group that included Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. Price published 24 solo stories in "the Unique Magazine" between 1925 and 1950, plus 3 collaborations with Otis Adelbert Kline, and his works with Lovecraft, noted above. Price worked in a range of popular genres, including science fiction, horror, crime, and fantasy; but he was best known for adventure stories with Oriental settings and atmosphere. Unsurprisingly, Price also contributed to Farnsworth Wright's short-lived but fondly-remembered Magic Carpet (1930-34), along with Kline, Howard, Smith, and other Weird Tales regulars [see Oriental Stories/The Magic Carpet (magazine)]. Argosy (originally meaning a large cargo ship) may refer to: American pulp magazine Argosy Magazine a 1920s British airliner, the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy a 1960s British military transport aircraft, the Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy the Space Navy of the Systems Commonwealth from the science fiction television series Andromeda. ... This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. ... Farnsworth Wright was a British ] who published the book Britain in the Age of Economic Management. ... Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ... Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure novelist during the pulp era, best known for his novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. ...

Like many other pulp-fiction writers, Price could not support himself and his family on his income from literature; living in New Orleans in the 1930s, he worked for a time for the Union Carbide Corporation. Nonetheless he managed to travel widely and maintain friendships with many other pulp writers, including Kline and Edmond Hamilton. On a trip to Texas in the mid-1930s, Price was the only pulp writer to meet Robert E. Howard face to face. Over the course of his long life, Price left significant reminiscences of many significant figures in pulp fiction, Howard, Lovecraft, and Hamilton among them. This article or section is incomplete and may require expansion and/or cleanup. ... Edmond Hamilton (November 21, 1904 - February 1, 1977) began writing science fiction with the story The Monster God of Mamurth in 1928. ...

Late in life, Price experienced a major literary resurgence; in the 1970s and '80s he issued a series of SF, fantasy, and adventure novels, published in paperback; The Devil Wives of Li Fong (1979) is one noteworthy example. He received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984. An important collection of his literary memoirs, Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear, Fictioneers & Others, was published posthumously in 2001.

Bibliography

Science fiction

• Operation Misfit (1980)
• Operation Longlife (1983)
• Operation Exile (1985)
• Operation Isis (1986)

Fantasy

• The Devil Wives of Li Fong (1979)
• The Jade Enchantress (1982)

Collections

• Strange Gateways (1967)
• Far Lands, Other Days (1975)
• Three Cliff Cragin stories (1987)
• Satan's Daughter and Other Tales from the Pulps (2004)

Nonfiction

• Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear, Fictioneers and Others (1980)
• The Weird Tales Story (1999)

External links

• E. Hoffmann Price at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database