S. T. Joshi (A.B., A.M., Brown University) is a widely published author and editor. He has prepared several editions of works by H. L. Mencken, including H. L. Mencken on American Literature (Ohio University Press, 2002), H. L. Mencken on Religion (Prometheus Books, 2002), Mencken’s America (Ohio University Press, 2004), and Mencken on Mencken (Louisiana State University Press, 2010). He has also compiled H. L. Mencken: An Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2009). Among his other works are such critical and biographical studies as The Weird Tale (University of Texas Press, 1990), The Modern Weird Tale (McFarland, 2001), Gore Vidal: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2007), and I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (Hippocampus Press, 2010). He has also written God’s Defenders (Prometheus Books, 2003), The Angry Right (Prometheus Books, 2006), and The Unbelievers (Prometheus Books, 2011). He is the editor of the Lovecraft Annual, Weird Fiction Review, and the American Rationalist.