30+ Minutes with H.P. Lovecraft (Episode 11: S.T. Joshi) [ Background information on S.T. Joshi ]

[Personal life S.T. Joshi - from WIKIPEDIA S. T. Joshi was born on June 22, 1958, in Pune, India, to Marathi parents 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, which is located in Providence, Rhode Island where Lovecraft had lived.[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]] Notable publications]