19 Facts About Samuel Loveman

Samuel Loveman spent the first 37 years of his life in Cleveland.

Samuel Loveman was a self-taught specialist in Elizabethan prose and drama, and Ancient Greek poetry.

Around 1923, Samuel Loveman secured employment at Eglin's, a Cleveland bookstore, but lost the position by November that year.

Samuel Loveman then followed Hart Crane and moved to New York.

Samuel Loveman secured employment at Dauber and Pine in New York, a position he retained into the 1930s.

Samuel Loveman wrote an entire monograph on one of his favourite writers, Edgar Saltus, but it appears not to have survived, though he contributed a brief preface to Poppies and Mandragora, a collection of poems by Edgar and Marie Saltus.

In 1932 Samuel Loveman helped establish the literary magazine Trend and published various poems, essays and reviews there.

Samuel Loveman made little attempt to preserve or gather his own work during his lifetime, the largest gathering perhaps being that of 23 poems published together in Hyman Bradofsky's The Californian for Summer 1935.

Samuel Loveman's friends included Ambrose Bierce.

Lovecraft along with Frank Belknap Long, and Hart Crane, with Samuel Loveman functioning as executor of Hart Crane's estate.

Samuel Loveman was close friends with Lovecraft during Lovecraft's New York years.

Samuel Loveman later bitterly repudiated the memory of Lovecraft's friendship in an essay titled "Of Gold and Sawdust" when Lovecraft's ex-wife Sonia Greene told him that Lovecraft was an anti-Semite.

Samuel Loveman wrote numerous memoirs of Hart Crane, and nursed Crane's mother Grace until her death.

Samuel Loveman dealt in old books and pre-Columbian antiquities and lived on 52nd Street, across from the popular night club Leon and Eddie's.

Samuel Loveman continued working in the book trade into an advanced age, including such venues as the Gotham Book Mart; he established his own bookstore, which was discontinued a few years before his death.

Samuel Loveman sold many objects relating to literary figures, particularly Hart Crane.

Samuel Loveman left his entire estate to a friend, Ernest Wayne Cunningham.

Samuel Loveman published no poetry, so far as is known, for the forty years prior to his death.

Samuel Loveman died in relative obscurity in 1976 at the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged.