August 20, 1890

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, (August 20, 1890 to March 15, 1937) was an antiquarian, amateur genealogist , and writer of some classics in the genre of horror fiction. Lovecraft, with a distinguished pedigree, had to deal with the loss of family wealth, and position. He does not seem to have suffered from the insanity which also ran in his family. Myself, I would put Lovecraft's biography as mainly a story about the urbanization of America. Like many horror writers, Lovecraft takes the tossing of the waves of a mechanical world as a source of emotional verity, and his intellectual sustenance is spent validating this limited view. 

But such is not the point of this post. We have in Lovecraft a fellow cat person. He said that "the dog is a peasant, the cat a gentleman."

This quote is from An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, edited by S. T. Joshi, and David E. Schultz (2001),  which work is evidence of and means to elevate, Lovecraft's reputation.