S.T. Joshi has done graduate work at Brown and Princeton and is a former senior editor at Chelsea House Publishers. A leading scholar of H. P. Lovecraft, he devoted years of research consulting manuscripts and early publications in preparing corrected editions of Lovecraft's collected fiction, revisions, and miscellaneous writings for Arkham House. They were published in five volumes from 1984-1995, including the best of Lovecraft’s fiction in The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, and Dagon.
From 1993 to 1995 Joshi devoted most of his time to the writing of an exhaustive biography of Lovecraft. H. P. Lovecraft: A Life appeared from Necronomicon Press in 1996. Joyce Carol Oates wrote a long and favorable review of it in the New York Review of Books (October 31, 1996), and it received the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association and the British Fantasy Award.
