He was raised at Newport, Rhode Island and then returned to spend his teenaged years at Haverhill where he was editor of his high-school paper and developed his facility as a young poet.
[1] After graduating from Brown he went to work for the city's main newspaper the Providence Journal, quickly becoming their book reviewer and Literary Editor.
He retired his post as Literary Editor in 1951 to complete "a book-length narrative poem on the Viking discoverers of America" (Brown Alumni Monthly).
Lovecraft (1890–1937), as literary editor of The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin,[2] Scott later penned an important early appreciation of horror writer H.P.
[3] His friendship with George Starbuck led to his inclusion in Sonnet With a Different Letter at the End of Every Line.