Background
David Keller was born on December 23, 1880 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
David Keller graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1903 with a Doctor of Medicine degree.
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David Keller was born on December 23, 1880 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
David Keller graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1903 with a Doctor of Medicine degree.
David Keller practiced medicine in rural New Jersey, beginning in 1903. He was a junior physician at Illinois Mental Institute, beginning in 1915.
Keller served as a neuropsychiatrist in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World Wars I and II, and was the assistant superintendent of the Louisiana State Mental Hospital at Pineville until Huey Long's reforms removed him from his position in 1928.
That same year, Keller would travel to New York City to meet with Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Amazing Stories, who had bought his first professionally published science fiction story "The Revolt of the Pedestrians".
In 1929, Gernsback founded the magazine Science Wonder Stories and not only published Keller's work in the first issue, but listed him as an associate science editor.
This began an intense writing period for Keller, but he was unable to support his family solely on a writer's income and set up a small private psychiatric practice out of his home in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania.
In addition, David Keller was a medical professor at Army Chaplains School of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and retired in 1945.
Besides, Keller became an early scholar of H.P. Lovecraft, publishing occasional works on Lovecraft from 1948 to 1965.
Quotes from others about the person
John Clute: "It is clear enough that Keller's conceptual inventiveness, and his cultural gloom, are worth more attention than they have received; it is also clear that he fatally scanted the actual craft of writing, and that therefore he is likely never to be fully appreciated."
David Henry Keller married in 1903.