1. Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet.
18 Facts About Peter Straub
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Peter Straub had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia, Ghost Story and The Talisman, the latter co-written with Stephen King.
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Peter Straub explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy, consisting of Koko, Mystery and The Throat.
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Peter Straub fused the supernatural with crime fiction in Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the related In the Night Room.
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At the age of seven, Peter Straub was struck by a car, sustaining serious injuries.
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Peter Straub was hospitalized for several months and used a wheelchair until he had re-learned how to walk.
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Peter Straub has said that the accident made him prematurely aware of his own mortality.
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Peter Straub read voraciously from an early age, although his father hoped that he would grow up to be a professional athlete, and his mother wanted him to be a Lutheran minister.
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Peter Straub attended Milwaukee Country Day School on a scholarship, and, during his time there, began writing.
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In 1990, Peter Straub published Houses Without Doors, a collection of short fiction including the shorter version of the novella Mrs God.
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In 1999, Peter Straub published Mr X, a novel with a doppelganger theme.
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In 2009, Peter Straub edited the Library of America anthology American Fantastic Tales.
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My Life in Pictures appeared in 1971 as part of a series of six poetry pamphlets Peter Straub published with his friend Thomas Tessier under the Seafront Press imprint while living in Dublin.
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In 2013, Peter Straub appeared on the Code Street podcast with fantasist John Crowley.
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In 2016, co-author Stephen King said that he and Peter Straub had plans to write a third Talisman book in the future.
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Peter Straub was a modern writer who was the equal of, say, Philip Roth, though he wrote about fantastic things.
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Peter Straub was a jazz aficionado, and saxophonist Lester Young features in his novella Pork Pie Hat.
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Peter Straub died on September 4,2022, aged 79, from complications of a broken hip.