S. T. Joshi

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.<ref name="STJAuto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

S. T. Joshi was born on June 22, 1958, in Pune, India, to Tryambak M. Joshi and Padmini T. Joshi.<ref name="setiya1">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="ancestrylibrary1978">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> When he was four, his family moved to the United States and settled in Indiana.<ref name="setiya1" /><ref name="ancestrylibrary1978" /> 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, Lovecraft: A Biography, 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, which is located in Providence, Rhode Island where Lovecraft had lived.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="oppenheimer1">Template:Cite news</ref> He is an atheist.<ref name="oppenheimer1"/>

He lives in Seattle, Washington.<ref name="STJAuto" /><ref name="oppenheimer1"/> Joshi married Leslie Gary Boba on September 1, 2001.<ref name="STJAuto" /> They divorced in December 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Notable publications

Books

• Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography (1993) (co-writer: Darrell Schweitzer)
• H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996)
• Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography (Arkham House, 1999) Template:ISBN
• I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010)
• Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012)
• 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).
• Searchers After Horror: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic (Fedogan & Bremer, 2002).<ref>Briefly reviewed in the May 2015 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, pp.107–111</ref>
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (Penguin Classics No. 3, 2005).
• The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany, edited with Martin Andersson (Hippocampus Press, 2017).

Awards

Literary awards

Year	Title	Award	Category	Result	Ref.
1990	The Weird Tale	Bram Stoker Award	Non-Fiction	Template:Nom
1991		World Fantasy Award	Special Award – Professional	Template:Nom
	John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study	Anthony Awards	Critical Work	Template:Nom
1996	H. P. Lovecraft: A Life	Bram Stoker Award	Non-Fiction	Template:Won
1997		British Fantasy Award	Small Press	Template:Won
	Lord Dunsany	Mythopoeic Awards	Myth and Fantasy Studies	Template:Sho
1999	Sixty Years of Arkham House	International Horror Guild Award	Non-Fiction	Template:Nom
2000		Locus Award	Non-Fiction	Template:Won
2006	Supernatural Literature of the World	World Fantasy Award	Special Award – Professional	Template:Nom
	Icons of Horror and the Supernatural	International Horror Guild Award	Non-Fiction	Template:Won
2007	American Supernatural Tales	International Horror Guild Award	Anthology	Template:Nom
	Warnings to the Curious	International Horror Guild Award	Non-Fiction	Template:Nom
2010	I Am Providence	Black Quill Award	Dark Genre Book of Non-Fiction	Template:Nom
2011	Black Wings of Cthulhu	World Fantasy Award	Anthology	Template:Nom
2012	Black Wings of Cthulhu 2	Shirley Jackson Award	Anthology	Template:Nom
2013	Unutterable Horror Vol 1 and 2	World Fantasy Award	Special Award – Nonprofessional	Template:Won
		World Fantasy Award	Special Award – Nonprofessional	Template:Won
2014	Lovecraft and a World in Transition	Bram Stoker Award	Non-Fiction	Template:Nom
2015	Black Wings of Cthulhu 4	Shirley Jackson Award	Anthology	Template:Nom
2016		World Fantasy Award	Anthology	Template:Nom
2022	Ramsey Campbell: Master of Weird Fiction	Locus Recommended Reading	Non-Fiction	Template:Won

Honors

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External links

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