Sunand T. Joshi
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Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born June 22, 1958 in Pune , India ) is an American literary scholar who became known as the biographer of Howard Phillips Lovecraft .
Life
Born in India, he has lived in the United States since the summer of 1963, currently in New York City . He is married to Leslie G. Boba. In 1982 he received his Bachelor of Arts and later his Masters from Brown University . He received the Paul Elmer More Fellowship in Classical Philosophy for a doctoral degree at Princeton University .
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His biography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft , HP Lovecraft: A Life , is certainly one of his major works to date and was awarded the Bram Stoker Award in 1996. The relatively uneventful life of Lovecraft is presented on 700 pages. Joshi is particularly interested in the intellectual development that Lovecraft went through in his short life and which enabled him to become one of the most influential writers in the United States in the 1930s. Admittedly, this rise only succeeded late after his death, through his literary administrator August Derleth , who even had to set up his own publishing house for this purpose: Arkham House .
The gain in importance of the work of Lovecraft, which is of relatively small size, was unpredictable even for influential literary critics and is in terms of volume (the editions), quite comparable with the works of JRR Tolkien . For this reason, ST Joshi felt compelled to write a well-founded biography about Lovecraft after that of Lyon Sprague de Camp did not appear sufficiently well-founded.
In 2005 and 2013 he received the World Fantasy Award in the Special-Pro category. In 1995 he received together with Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and Michael A. Morrison the British Fantasy Award as editor of the small publishing house Necrofile . In 2015 he received it for his non-fiction book Letters to Arkham .
bibliography
- HP Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (1990)
- John Dickson Carr : A Critical Study (1990)
- Lord Dunsany : Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995)
- HP Lovecraft: A Life. (1996) Necronomicon Press, West Warwick, Rhode Island , USA ( ISBN 0-940884-88-7 )
- The Annotated HP Lovecraft. (1997) Dell Publishing, ( ISBN 978-0-440-50660-7 )
- I Am Providence: The Life and Times of HP Lovecraft (2013)
Web links
- Autobiography on his official homepage
- Literature by and about Sunand T. Joshi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sunand T. Joshi in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joshi, Sunand T. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Joshi, Sunand Tryambak (full name); Joshi, ST (alternative spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pune , India |