![]() Lovecraft, sparking a friendship and correspondence that would endure until Lovecraft's death in 1937. ![]() Long's story "The Eye Above the Mantel" (1921) in UAPA caught the eye of H. His first published tale was "Dr Whitlock's Price ( United Amateur, March 1920). In his late teens, he was active in the United Amateur Press Association (UAPA) in which he won a prize from The Boy's World (around 1919) and thus discovered amateur journalism. Though writing was to be his life's work, he once commented that as "important as writing is, I could have been completely happy if I had a secure position in a field that has always had a tremendous emotion and an imaginative appeal for me-that of natural history." As a boy he was fascinated by natural history, and wrote that he dreamed of running "away from home and explore the great rain forests of the Amazon." He developed his interest in the weird by reading the Oz books, Jules Verne, and H.G. ![]() A lifelong resident of New York City, he was educated in the New York City public school system. The family resided at 823 West End Avenue in Manhattan. ![]() His father was a prosperous dentist and his mother was May Doty. Frank Belknap Long was born in New York City in 1901, and grew up in the Harlem area of Manhattan. ![]()
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