Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

Birth
Placer County, California, USA
Death 14 Aug 1961 (aged 68)
Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California, USA
Burial
Auburn, Placer County, California, USA
Plot The poet's ashes lie beside, or beneath, a boulder to the immediate west of where his childhood home (destroyed by fire in 1957) stood; some were also scattered in a stand of blue oaks near the boulder. There is no marker.
Memorial ID 18549 · View Source
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Poet, author, painter, artist, sculptor. A master of vividly weird imagery, Smith was the third of the "Three Musketeers" published regularly in "Weird Tales" magazine along with H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, whom he never met, but with whom he corresponded extensively. He considered himself primarily a poet, but turned out many short stories; he also produced impressively disturbing sketches, paintings, and sculptures.

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  • Added: 25 Nov 2000
  • Find A Grave Memorial 18549
  • Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), memorial page for Clark Ashton Smith (13 Jan 1893–14 Aug 1961), Find A Grave Memorial no. 18549, citing Clark Ashton Smith Gravesite, Auburn, Placer County, California, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .