Sunanda Tryambak Joshi (b. 22 June 1958 in Pune, India) is an Indian American literary scholar, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors. Besides what some critics consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft (H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, 1996), Joshi has written about Ambrose Bierce, Henry Louis Mencken, and Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, and has edited collections of their works. June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pune (पुणे in Marathi), formerly Punavadi and Poona (पूना in Hindi), Maharashtra state, western India, is situated at the confluence of the Mula and Mutha rivers. ... For an article on American Indians see Native Americans. ... H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... This is an article on biographies. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842, Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, USA – date of death uncertain, possibly December 1913 or early 1914, presumably in Mexico) was an American satirist, critic, poet, short story writer, editor and journalist. ... H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken was a twentieth century journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the Sage of Baltimore and the American Nietzsche. He is often regarded as one of the... Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (24 July 1878–25 October 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy and horror. ...

His literary criticism is notable for its emphases upon readability and the dominant worldviews of the authors in question; his The Weird Tale looks at six acknowledged masters of horror and fantasy (namely Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Dunsany, M. R. James, Bierce and Lovecraft), and discusses their respective worldviews in depth and with authority. A follow-up volume, The Modern Weird Tale, examines the work of modern writers including Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, Robert Aickman, Thomas Ligotti, T. E. D. Klein and others, from a similar philosophically-oriented viewpoint. The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004) includes essays on Dennis Etchison, L. P. Hartley, E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling, David J. Schow, Robert Bloch, Poppy Z. Brite and others. Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... A world view, also spelled as worldview is a term calqued from the German word Weltanschauung (look onto the world). The German word is also in wide use in English, as well as the translated form world outlook. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ... Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... Arthur Machen (March 3, 1863 – December 15th, 1947) was a leading Welsh-born author of the 1890s. ... Algernon Henry Blackwood (March 14, 1869 – December 10, 1951) was a British writer of tales of the supernatural. ... Montague Rhodes James, (August 1, 1862–June 12, 1936). ... Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American author who wrote short stories and novels. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for horror novels. ... Robert Fordyce Aickman (born June 24, 1914 - died February 26, 1981) was a British author of supernatural short stories he liked to describe as strange. // Overview Aickman was the grandson of prolific Victorian novelist Richard Marsh (1857-1915), known for his occult novel The Beetle (1897), a book arguably almost... Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan) is a writer of horror stories. ... T. E. D. Klein (born 1947) is an American horror writer and editor. ... Cover of Dennis Etchisons short story collection (Stealth Press, 2001) Dennis William Etchison (born March 30, 1943 in Stockton, California), is an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. ... Leslie Poles Hartley (December 30, 1895 - December 13, 1972) was a British writer, known for novels and short stories. ... Edward Frederick Benson (July 24, 1867 - February 29, 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. ... Bold text Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. ... David J. Schow is an American fiction writer. ... Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was a prolific Jewish-American writer. ... Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite on May 25, 1967) is an American author born in New Orleans. ...

Joshi is the editor of the small-press literary journals Lovecraft Studies and Studies in Weird Fiction.

At the time of writing, Joshi is working towards the publication of the collected work of Clark Ashton Smith and George Sterling, and Lovecraft’s Collected Essays. Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ... George Sterling (1869-1926), was born in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, and moved to California in 1890. ...

In addition to literary criticism, Joshi has also edited books on atheism and race relations, including Documents of American Prejudice (1999), an annotated collection of American racist writings; and Atheism: A Reader (2000), which collects atheistic writings by such people as Antony Flew, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, Gore Vidal and Carl Sagan among others. Joshi is also the author of God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They are Wrong (2003), an anti-religious polemic against various writers including C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley, William James, Stephen L. Carter, Annie Dillard, Reynolds Price, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Guenter Lewy, Neale Donald Walsch and Jerry Falwell. Atheism, in its broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of gods. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... An African-American drinks out of a water fountain marked for colored in 1939 at a street car terminal in Oklahoma City. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Professor Antony Garrard Newton Flew (born February 11, 1923) is a British philosopher, known as a supporter of libertarianism and supporter of atheism. ... George Eliot Mary Ann Evans, better known by the pen name George Eliot (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), was an English novelist. ... Wikisource has original works written by or about: Bertrand Russell Writings available online A Free Mans Worship (1903) Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic? Icarus: The Future of Science Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind In Praise of Idleness (1932) Nobel Lecture... Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarcho-communist known for her anarchist writings and speeches. ... Gore Vidal, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, known better simply as Gore Vidal, (born October 3, 1925) is a well-known American writer of novels, plays and essays, and a public figure for over fifty years. ... A respected astronomer and dogged critic of pseudoscience, Carl Sagan is best known for his enthusiastic efforts at popularizing science. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar, born into a Protestant family in Belfast, though mostly resident in England. ... G.K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was a prolific English writer of the early 20th century. ... T.S. Eliot (by E.O. Hoppe, 1919) Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose works, such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land and Four Quartets, are considered major achievements of twentieth... William F. Buckley may refer to: William Francis Buckley, U.S. Army officer and CIA operative William F. Buckley, Jr. ... William James William James (January 11, 1842, New York – August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire) was a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. ... Stephen L. Carter born October 26, 1954 is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and novelist. ... Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author. ... Reynolds Price Reynolds Price (born February 1, 1933) is an award-winning U.S. novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University [1]. Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and biblical scholarship. ... Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 - August 24, 2004) was a psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model. ... Guenter Lewy is professor emeritus of political science, University of Massachusetts. ... Neale Donald Walsch Neale Donald Walsch was born in Milwaukee,USA, and brought up as a Roman Catholic, by a family which encouraged his quest for spiritual truth. ... Jerry Falwell Jerry Lamon Falwell (born on August 11, 1933, Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, founder of the Moral Majority & Liberty University, and a prominent Conservative activist. ...

Joshi has stated that his most noteworthy achievements thus far have been the corrected texts of Lovecraft’s fiction and other works, his biography of Lovecraft, and The Weird Tale.

Bibliography

• H. P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1981).
• H. P. Lovecraft (Starmont Reader's Guide 13) (Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1982).
• The Weird Tale (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990).
• H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990).
• Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography (with Darrell Schweitzer) (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1993).
• Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).
• The Core of Ramsey Campbell: A Bibliography & Reader's Guide (with Ramsey Campbell and Stefan Dziemianowicz) (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1995).
• H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1996).
• Documents of American Prejudice (edited) (New York: Basic Books, 1999).
• Atheism: A Reader (edited) (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, [October] 2000).
• The Modern Weird Tale (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, [March] 2001).
• Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, [June] 2001).
• God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, [June] 2003).
• The Evolution of the Weird Tale (New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2004).