Clark Ashton Smith, American poet, sculptor, painter, and author (died 1961)

Clark Ashton Smith

American author (1893–1961)

Clark Ashton Smith was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories and poetry, and an artist. He achieved early recognition in California for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics…