Paul Viiding Paul Viiding Paul Viiding (22 May 1904 – 27 June 1962) was an Estonian poet, author and literary critic. Born in Valga, Estonia to Juhan and Ann Viiding ("née" Rose), he was the oldest of two children; his sister Linda was born in 1907. He graduated with a degree in mathematics in Tartu before pursuing a career as an author and poet. He was a member of the influential group of Estonian poets brought together in 1938 by literary scholar Ants Oras who was greatly influenced by T. S. Eliot. The small circle of six poets became known as "Arbujad"
S. T. Joshi S. T. Joshi Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 22 June 1958), known as S. T. Joshi, is an American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft, "I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft" (Hippocampus Press, 2 vols., 2010 [originally published in one volume as "", 1996]), Joshi has prepared (with David E. Schultz) several annotated editions of works by Ambrose Bierce.