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Straub, Peter, 1943-2022

LC control no.n 79004066
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3569.T6914
Personal name headingStraub, Peter, 1943-2022
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Variant(s)Straub, Piter, 1943-
Straub, Peter, 1943-
Other standard no.Q364189
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Birth date1943-03-02
Death date2022-09-04
Field of activityDetective and mystery fiction Horror fiction Poetry
Profession or occupationAuthors Poets
Found inHis Ishmael, 1972.
Drakon, 1994: title page (Piter Straub)
Information from 678 converted January 5, 2015 (born 1943)
King, Stephen. Casa negra [ER], 2016 : title page frame (Stephen King, Peter Straub)
Amazon website dated September 29, 2022 : ("Peter Straub is the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction." Also author of Ishmael.)
New York Times, September 6, 2022 (Peter Straub, whose literary novels of terror, mystery and the supernatural placed him in the top ranks of the horror-fiction boom of the 1970s and '80s, alongside writers like Ira Levin, Anne Rice and his close friend and collaborator Stephen King, died on Sunday [September 4, 2022] in Manhattan. He was 79)
Wikipedia website, viewed November 16, 2022: Peter Straub page (born Peter Francis Straub, March 2, 1943 in MIlwaukee, Wisconsin; died September 4, 2022 (age 79) in New York, New York; novelist, poet)
Associated languageeng