James Anderson (author)
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James Arthur Anderson's first published short story appeared in Andrew J. Offutt's Swords Against V anthology in 1979. He has since published stories in Lin Carter's Weird Tales 4, Elditch Tales, Fantasy Tales, and Haunts. His nonfiction has appeared in Fangoria. In 1997 he began using his complete name, James Arthur Anderson, in his by-line. He has won several poetry awards, including first place in the rhymed poetry category in the 79th annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition.
Anderson was born in Providence, RI in 1955 and currently lives in North Miami, FL. He received a B.A. from Rhode Island College in 1977, and an M.A. in 1987. He earned his Ph.D. in literature from the University of Rhode Island in 1992. His book-length study of H.P. Lovecraft, Out of the Shadows: a Structuralist Approach to Understanding the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft was published in 2011 by Wildside Press.
