The Fourth Author

For time purposes, my next few posts must be shortened considerably. To some of you who have been reading my blog, this will come as a disappointment. For others who were looking for a quick but interesting read, maybe this will come as a relief. 

How His Life Was

Clark Ashton Smith was born on January 13, 1983 in Auburn, California. He was an only child, and contracted scarlet fever as a small child, causing health problems for years. He did manage to help his father build their four bedroom house, though.

Smith never finished school. He never even started high school. Instead, with the approval of his parents, he was self-educated and was known to have read the encyclopedia through at least twice, and to have read through the entire Oxford dictionary. With educational devices such as this, although he was not formally educated, he was a very well-educated man. 

He expressed himself through many different forms, but his top three forms were poetry, short weird fiction pieces, and sculpture. He worked with authors such as H.P. Lovecraft.

He married and spent the remainder of his life with his wife and her children by his hometown, and passed away peacefully in 1961.

How His Life Could Have Been

Clark did not have an exceptionally hard life, from what I have read. There would not be very much difference between what he experienced then and what might have experienced now. The only really notable example is with the scarlet fever. I'm not sure if scarlet fever is still around today, but if it is, it is not mainstream. I, for one, have never known someone who has it. So he may not have been as sickly during his childhood. Whether or not this would have encouraged him to stay in public school, I do not know. He still may have elected to be homeschooled, which is a perfectly fine option even in today's society.