Sonia Greene

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Sonia Haft Greene Lovecraft Davis (16 March 1883 – December 1972) was an American one-time pulp fiction writer, businesswoman, and milliner who bankrolled several fanzines in the early twentieth century.

H. P. Lovecraft, an American weird fiction writer, is best known for her two-year marriage.

She was president of the United Amateur Press Association.

Life and work

Greene's biographical information are uncertain; she was born as Sonia Haft Shafirkin or Sonia Shaferkin Haft in Chernigov Province, Chernigov Province, to Simyon and Racille (Haft) Shafirkin, according to Sonia Haft Shafirkin. She is said to have come from a Jewish family. She appeared to die as a child in 1888, and her mother fled to the United States, leaving Sonia and her brother in Liverpool at Baron Maurice de Hirsch School. After her mother remarried to a storekeeper named Samuel Morris, Sonia joined her mother in the United States in 1892.

Sonia married Samuel Greene, a Russian whose name may have been Samuel Seckendorff, who was ten years her senior, on December 24, 1899. A year after, she gave birth to a son who died at the age of three months. Florence Carol (later Carol Weld) was born on March 19, 1902. Alfred Galpin Greene, Lovecraft's reporter, was "a man of brutal character." Samuel Greene died in 1916, presumably by his own hand, during the marriage.

Greene was a middle-class woman, which was unusual for women of that time. She worked as a milliner at a department store and traveled extensively for her work. Flatbush, Brooklyn, then a wealthy suburb, was rented by her husband and her daughter as a result of her salary. She contributed to many amateur press journals and traveled to amateur press conventions.

Florence Weld, Greene's daughter, became a hit journalist under the name of Carol Weld. The two women had a volatile relationship and were then estranged. Greene did not mention her daughter in her book The Private Life of H. P. Lovecraft, an autobiographical book that refers only to her time and marriage with Lovecraft.

At an amateur press convention in Boston in 1921, Greene met Howard P. Lovecraft. James Ferdinand Morton, Jr., a Lovecraft colleague, had introduced her to amateur journalism four years earlier. The Rainbow, a fanzine marketed by Reinhardt Kleiner as "a substantial and valuable collection of photographs of well-known amateurs of the day, featuring excellent contributions by many of them," the October is the month that was describing them. In The National Amateur (March 1922), Lovecraft discussed Greene's magazine at length. Necronomicon Press published a facsimile version of the magazine in 1977.

"The Horror at Martin's Beach," Greene's best-known tale when published in Weird Tales (November 1923), "The Invisible Monster," revised and retitled as "The Invisible Monster." Lovecraft wrote his story "Under the Pyramids" in February 1924 but lost his typescript at Union Station in Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, while traveling to New York to marry Greene, who helped him with most of their honeymoon in Philadelphia.

Greene wrote the story "Four O'Clock" (suggested by Lovecraft but not revised by him), which was first published in Something About Cats and Other Pieces, as well as her book "Lovecraft as I Knew Him" (suggest by Lovecraft).

Greene and Lovecraft moved to Brooklyn and lived in her apartment after their marriage in St. Paul's Chapel in 1924 (Greene was then 40 years old and Lovecraft 33). Both the couple were facing financial difficulties shortly. Greene's hat shop was closed and she had poor health. Lovecraft couldn't find a way to help them both, so his wife moved to Cleveland for work. Lovecraft lived in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn and adamantly disliked New York life. Greene spent the last year or so of her marriage on the road, travelling for her work. Lovecraft was given a weekly allowance that helped him pay for a tiny apartment in Brooklyn Heights, then-working class. Greene slept there for one or two days out of the month. Lovecraft wrote that he was so poor that he lived for three days on a loaf of bread, one can of cold beans, and a hunk of cheese. Lovecraft (who had returned to Providence, Rhode Island), and his wife, who were still living separately, decided on an amicable divorce that was never fully completed.

Greene wrote Alcestis, the Prologue to which was written in Lovecraft's hand. It wasn't released until the mid-1980s, when it was published in a facsimile holograph version of 200 copies by R. Alain Everts' The Strange Company as by H.P. Lovecraft and Sonia Greene are two of Sonia Greene's favorites. S. T. Joshi, a lovecraft scholar, acknowledges that the play is purely Greene's creation. Greene's papers at the John Hay Library include Alcestis' manuscript.

Greene moved to California after her marriage to Lovecraft came to an end in 1933. In 1936, she married Dr. Nathaniel Abraham Davis of Los Angeles. She did not hear of Lovecraft's death until 1945, eight years after his death in 1937. Lovecraft's union with Lovecraft was never legally ended because Lovecraft, although he told her the divorce had been legally filed, was not able to sign the final decree, so Greene's relationship with Davis was not legally binding. Greene was warned of this late in life, but it was deeply troubling. In 1946, her third husband died.

Greene later resided at Diana Lynn Lodge, a senior home in Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles, where she died in 1972 at the age of 89.

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