S. T. Joshi Explained

S. T. Joshi
Birth Date:	June 22, 1958
Birth Place:	Pune, India
Occupation:	Writer
Citizenship:	United States
Subject:	Weird fiction
Education:	Brown University (BA, MA)

Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born June 22, 1958) is an American literary critic whose work has largely focused on weird and fantastic fiction, especially the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft and associated writers.

Career

His literary criticism focuses upon the worldviews of authors. His The Weird Tale examines horror and fantasy writing by Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, and Lovecraft.^[1]

Personal life

S. T. Joshi was born on June 22, 1958, in Pune, India, to Tryambak M. Joshi and Padmini T. Joshi.^{[2] [3] [4]} When he was four, his family moved to the United States and settled in Indiana. He discovered the work of Lovecraft at age 13 in a public library in Muncie, Indiana. He also read L. Sprague de Camp's biography of Lovecraft, , on publication in 1975, and began thereafter to devote himself to Lovecraft. This devotion led him to decline offers from Yale and Harvard so that he could attend Brown University.^{[5] [6]} He is an atheist.^[6]

He lives in Seattle, Washington.^[6] Joshi married Leslie Gary Boba on September 1, 2001. They divorced in December 2010.^[7]

In August 2014, Joshi opposed the decision to retire and replace Gahan Wilson's bust of Lovecraft as the World Fantasy Award statuette in light of a campaign highlighting Lovecraft's history of racism; Joshi returned his World Fantasy Awards in protest.^[8]

Notable publications

Books

• Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography (1993) (co-writer: Darrell Schweitzer)
• (1996)
• Sixty Years of Arkham House

A History and Bibliography (Arkham House, 1999)

• I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010)
• Lord Dunsany: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2013)

Edited volumes

• Miscellaneous Writings by H. P. Lovecraft (Arkham House, 1995).
• Documents of American Prejudice: An Anthology of Writings on Race from Thomas Jefferson to David Duke (Basic Books, 1999).
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (Penguin Classics No. 1, 1999).
• Atheism: A Reader (Prometheus Books, 2000).
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (Penguin Classics No. 2, 2001).
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (Penguin Classics No. 3, 2005).
• Book: ^[9]

Awards

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Notes and References

1. Web site: S.T. Joshi: An Autobiography . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190403202039/http://stjoshi.org/biography.html . April 3, 2019.
2. Setiya . Kieran . 2020 . Correspondence; Revisiting H. P. Lovecraft . The Yale Review . en . 108 . 3 . 138 . 10.1353/tyr.2020.0048 . 0044-0124 . 1721.1/130173. 236895320 . free .
3. News: 1994-02-26 . Obituary for Tryambak M. Joshi (Aged 83) . 15 . Muncie Evening Press . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210823170217/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83991356/obituary-for-tryambak-m-joshi-aged-83/ . August 23, 2021.
4. Web site: August 15, 1978 . Sunand Tryambak Joshi . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210823173319/https://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com/aleweb/ale/do/login . August 23, 2021 . Federal Naturalization Records, 1892–1992 . Indianapolis . Ancestry.com.
5. News: July 8, 1977 . New Fans: H. P. Lovecraft Is As Good As Poe, They Say . 11 . The Ludington Daily News . https://web.archive.org/web/20200228023010/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45766115/the-ludington-daily-news/ . February 28, 2020 . Newspapers.com.
6. News: Oppenheimer . Mark . 2014-03-15 . Spreading the Word on the Power of Atheism . en-US . The New York Times . 0362-4331 . . July 9, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170709120012/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/us/spreading-the-word-on-the-power-of-atheism.html . live .
7. Web site: S. T. Joshi . Blog . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20120312123740/http://stjoshi.org/news.html . March 12, 2012 . S. T. Joshi.
8. News: Flood . Alison . 2015-11-11 . HP Lovecraft biographer rages against ditching of author as fantasy prize emblem . en . The Guardian . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210512201817/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/11/hp-lovecraft-biographer-rages-against-ditching-of-author-as-fantasy-prize-emblem . May 12, 2021 . 0261-3077.
9. Briefly reviewed in the May 2015 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, pp.107–111
10. 2018-01-15 . Lovecraft Research Fellowship . Locus . en-US . 0047-4959.
11. Cannon . Peter . August 29, 2013 . Lovecraft Fans and Scholars Gather for NecronomiCon Providence 2013 . Publishers Weekly . en . 0000-0019.