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He corresponded extensively with fellow pulp writer Carl Jacobi , from until Jacobi's death in Selections of this correspondence can be found in Cave's memoir Magazines I Remember.

Hugh Barnett Cave was a prolific writer of novels and short stories of various genres including pulp fiction, juveniles, horror stories, and science fiction.

Relations with other pulp writers were not always so cordial. Lovecraft , who lived in nearby Providence. The two engaged in a heated exchange of correspondence, however, regarding the ethics and aesthetics of writing for the pulps. Popular culture critic Lee Server wrote that Cave was "a valued contributor to the two most honored magazines of the pulp era, Weird Tales and Black Mask a distinction in itself, as most contributors to those two magazines wrote only for one or the other.

One of his most remembered statements regarded writing: "Many of today's writers seem to think that obscurity is a virtue and have apparently decided that a reader who can't understand them will think them artistic The great writers of the past would not be remembered today had they fallen into this subtle trap. Cave was born in in Chester, England , and moved during his childhood with his family to Boston , Massachusetts , following the outbreak of World War I.

His first name was in honor of Hugh Walpole, a favorite author of his mother, who had been friends with Rudyard Kipling. Cave attended Brookline High School.

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After graduating, he attended Boston University on a scholarship but had to leave when his father was severely injured. Cave worked initially for a vanity press, the only regular job he would ever have. He quit this position at the age of 20 to write for a living. Cave was married twice — first to Margaret Long in a union that produced two sons before the couple began living apart — and to Peggy Thompson, who died in A war correspondent during World War II , Cave afterward settled in Jamaica where he owned and managed a coffee plantation and continued writing, adding novels as well as fiction and non-fiction sales to mainstream magazines.

Cave was 93 when he died in Vero Beach, Florida , in