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.
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.[2][4] 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.[5][6] He is an atheist.[6]
He lives in Seattle, Washington.[1][6] Joshi married Leslie Gary Boba on September 1, 2001.[1] 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]
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts – IAFA Distinguished Critic Award [3] 2003
World Fantasy Award – Special Award for Professional Scholarship [4] 2005
International Horror Guild – Outstanding Achievement in Horror & Dark Fantasy for Nonfiction [5] 2005 Supernatural Literature of the World (Greenwood Press) – Co-editor
International Horror Guild – Outstanding Achievement in Horror & Dark Fantasy for Nonfiction [6] 2006 Icons of Horror and the Supernatural (Greenwood Press) – Editor
World Fantasy Award – Special Award Non-Professional [7] 2013 Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volumes 1 & 2 (PS Publishing) – Author
S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship 2013 [10][11]
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