Peter Straub

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Peter Francis Straub (born March 2, 1943) is an American novelist and poet.

Several literary awards, including the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award, have been given to his horror stories.

Early life and education

Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the son of Gordon Anthony Straub and Elvena (Nilsestuen) Straub. Straub was hit by a car at the age of seven, causing severe injuries. Since being hospitalized until he had re-learned how to walk, he was hospitalized for several months and temporarily used a wheelchair. Straub claims that the crash made him prematurely aware of his own death.

Straub read avidly from an early age, but his literary interests disappointed his parents; his father aspired to be a professional actor, while his mother wished him to be a Lutheran minister. He attended Milwaukee Country Day School on a scholarship and began writing during his stay there.

Straub earned a BA in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965 and an MA at Columbia University a year later. He briefly taught English at Milwaukee Country Day before heading to Dublin, Ireland, in 1969, to work on a PhD and to begin writing professionally.

Personal life and death

Straub married Susan Bitker in 1966. Benjamin and Emma Straub, who is also a novelist, had two children. The family lived in Dublin from 1969 to 1972, and in the New York City area from 1979 to 1979.

Straub died on September 4, 2022, aged 79, from the effects of a broken hip. He and his wife were living in Brooklyn at the time of his death.

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Career

Straub dabbled in the supernatural for the first time with Julia (1975), after mixed success with two attempts at literary mainstream novels in the mid-1970s (Marriages and Under Venus). He continued writing If You Could See Me Now (1977), drawing wide public attention with his fifth book, Ghost Story (1979), which was a critical success and was later loosened into a 1981 film starring Fred Astaire. Several horror novels followed, with growing success, including The Talisman and Black House, two fantasy-horror collaborations with Straub's long-time friend and fellow writer Stephen King.

Straub resurfaced in 1988 with Koko, a non-supernatural (but horrific) Vietnam book, after a fallow period. In the early 1990s, Koko was followed by the companion book Mystery and The Throat, which together with Koko make up the "Blue Rose Trilogy." Straub's journeys into metafiction and unreliable narrators were extended by these intricate and intertwined books.

In 1996, the thrilling mainstream thriller The Hellfire Club was published. Mr. X introduced a doppelgänger theme in 1999. Straub and King resurfaced in 2001, as the Talisman's loose sequel to The Talisman ties the book to King's Dark Tower Series. Lost Boy, a new Straub book, was released in 2003, followed by In the Night Room, 2004. Both of these books have been nominated for Stoker prizes.

In addition, Straub edited H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (2005). Mr. X's novel, as the eponymous Mr. X wrote in a similar style, paid tribute to Lovecraft.

Straub has written several books of poetry. When living in Dublin, My Life in Pictures appeared in 1971 as part of a series of six poetry pamphlets by Straub. Turlock Books in London first published Ishmael, a more substantial chapbook published in 1972. Open Air, Straub's third book of poetry, appeared in the Irish University Press later this year. Poems 1970, Leeson Park and Belsize Square: Poems 1970 – 1975 was published by Underwood-Miller in October 1983. The collection reprints a portion of Ishmael's as well as previously uncollected poems, but not one of the poems from Open Air.

In S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale (2001), a critical essay on Straub's horror work can be found. Bill Sheehan's biography of Straub before 2000.

Straub served on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions, and he edited Conjunctions: 39, an issue of New Wave Fabulism.

Straub's personal papers were purchased by the Fales Library at New York University in 2007.

The debut of his new thriller, A Dark Matter, in February 2010.

Stephen King, a co-author, said in 2016 that he and Straub had planned to write a third Talisman book. The King claims that the collaboration for the series was "natural" and that the two were eager to work together. "He brought a poet's sensibility to the field, establishing a synthesis of horror and beauty," King says, "he writes a stunning prose line that includes narrative detail, sterling characterization, and unexpected bursts of humor." Straub said in a podcast with Dead Headspace that it is unlikely that he will be able to keep up with Stephen King anymore, so it is unlikely that he will co-write a third Talisman with Stephen King.

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