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Peter Straub


Born
in Milwaukee Wisconsin, The United States
March 02, 1943

Died
September 04, 2022

Website

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Horror, Literature & Fiction

Influences
John Ashbery, Raymond Chandler, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Donal ...more


Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Gordon Anthony Straub and Elvena (Nilsestuen) Straub.

Straub read voraciously from an early age, but his literary interests did not please his parents; his father hoped that he would grow up to be a professional athlete, while his mother wanted him to be a Lutheran minister. He attended Milwaukee Country Day School on a scholarship, and, during his time there, began writing.

Straub earned an honors 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, then moved to Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 to work on a PhD, and to start writing professionally

After mixed success with two attempts ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 4.01 · 531,344 ratings · 27,343 reviews · 260 distinct works • Similar authors
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3.92 avg rating — 82,936 ratings — published 1979
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Shadowland
3.88 avg rating — 12,729 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions
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Floating Dragon
3.82 avg rating — 12,724 ratings — published 1982 — 62 editions
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Koko
3.60 avg rating — 10,130 ratings — published 1988 — 77 editions
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The Hellfire Club
3.74 avg rating — 7,373 ratings — published 1996 — 60 editions
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Lost Boy Lost Girl
3.50 avg rating — 5,861 ratings — published 2003 — 65 editions
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Mystery
3.96 avg rating — 4,364 ratings — published 1990 — 57 editions
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Mr. X
3.61 avg rating — 4,583 ratings — published 1999
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The Throat
3.97 avg rating — 3,993 ratings — published 1993 — 52 editions
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A Dark Matter
2.97 avg rating — 5,055 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions
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“Wolf! Right here and now!”
― Peter Straub, The Talisman
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“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”
― Peter Straub, The Throat
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“The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.”
― Peter Straub, The Throat
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