He was natural around Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827 - 1911), a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers (née Boughton), a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island. Robert's brother was Walter Boughton Chambers, the world famous designer.

Robert entered a Art Students' League at around a age of twenty, in which a creative person Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers exposed at a École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his operate was displayed at a Salon as early as 1889. around his link to to Just released York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. So, for reasons unreadable, devoted his instance to writing, producing his number 1 novel, In the Quarter (1864). His best known effort has to exist as The King in Yellow, a collection of weird fiction short stories, attached per theme of a terrible book (to which the title refers) which drives those who read it insane.

Apparently favouring sales & popularity on top artistic merit, Chambers late turned to writing romantic fiction to earn the residing. Based on datthe from a bit of estimates, Chambers was one of a virtually all successful literary careers of his cycle, his late novels selling swell & a handful achieving right-seller status. Numbers of of his works were too serialized within magazines.

In July 12, 1898, he married Elsa Vaughn Moller (1882-1939). It experienced the boy, Robert Edward Stuart Chambers (later calling himself Robert Husted Chambers) who too gained a few fame as an creator.

H. P. Lovecraft said of him in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith,

Frederic Taber Cooper commented,

Works

The King in Yellow (1895) A Maker of Moons (1896) A Mystery of Selection (1896) Inside Seek of the Unknown (1904) A Tracer of Wasted Souls (1906) A Tree of the gods (1907) Constabulary! (1915)

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