S. T. Joshi

Personal life

S. T. Joshi was born on June 22, 1958, in Pune, India, to Marathi parents Tryambak M. Joshi and Padmini T. Joshi. 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, 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. He is an atheist.

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

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.

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) ISBN 9780870541766
• 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).
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (Penguin Classics No. 3, 2005).
• The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce - Comprehensive Edition in 3 Volumes, edited with Lawrence I. Berkove & David E. Schultz (2006).
• The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany, edited with Martin Andersson (Hippocampus Press, 2017).

Awards

Literary awards

Honors

• International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts – IAFA Distinguished Critic Award
  2003
  
• World Fantasy Award – Special Award for Professional Scholarship
  2005