Sunand Tryambak Joshi (b. 22 June 1958 in Pune, India) — known as S. T. Joshi — is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft (H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, 1996), Joshi has prepared (with David E. Schul...
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Sunand Tryambak Joshi (b. 22 June 1958 in Pune, India) — known as S. T. Joshi — is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft (H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, 1996), Joshi has prepared (with David E. Schultz) several annotated editions of works by Ambrose Bierce. He has also written on crime novelist John Dickson Carr and on Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood and M.R. James, and has edited collections of their works, as well as collections of the best work of several other weird writers. He has compiled bibliographies of Lovecraft, Bierce, Lord Dunsany, Ramsey Campbell and William Hope Hodgson. He is the general editor of Dover Horror Classics. Most recently he has turned his attention to collecting and editing the works of H.L. Mencken. He...
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