Author Peter Straub died this past Sunday successful Manhattan owed to complications of a breached hip.
Straub, calved successful Milwaukee connected March 2, 1943, was a fashionable fearfulness novelist with a somewhat unorthodox pedigree— earlier turning to penning astir the fantastical, helium had published abbreviated collections of poetry. Although helium was reluctant to statement his penning arsenic fearfulness astatine times, helium brought his poet’s oculus to his penning wrong the genre, drafting comparisons to Henry James and Phillip Roth by different writers.
His archetypal fearfulness book, Julia (1975), was followed by If You Could See Me Now (1977), and his breakout hit Ghost Story (1979). Julia was adapted into the 1977 movie The Haunting of Julia starring Mia Farrow, and Ghost Story into a 1981 movie starring Fred Astaire.
His continued penning produced respective novels, novellas, and abbreviated stories done the years, a fewer of which either won awards oregon were nominated. One specified book, The Talisman, was co-written by his person and modern Stephen King. It was shortlisted for 1985’s World Fantasy and Locus Awards.
He is survived by his woman Susan Straub, lad Benjamin, 3 grandchildren, and his daughter, novelist Emma Straub whose latest publication This Time Tomorrow is astir a women whose father’s wellness is worsening. It was partially inspired by the narration betwixt her and her father.
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