James Arthur Andersons first published short story appeared in Andrew J. Offutt's ''

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'' anthology in 1979. He has since published stories in

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's '' Weird Tales 4'', ''Elditch Tales'', ''Fantasy Tales'', and ''Haunts''. His nonfiction has appeared in ''

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''. 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

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Writing Competition. Anderson was born in

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, Rhode Island, in 1955 and currently lives in Garfield, Georgia. He received a B.A. from

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in 1977, and an M.A. in 1987. He earned his Ph.D. in literature from the University of Rhode Island in 1992. In 2023 he was named Professor Emeritus at Johnson & Wales University, where he had taught since 1984 until his retirement. 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. In June, 2017, he published a book-length critical study of

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, ''The Linguistics of Stephen King: Layered Language and Meaning in the fiction'' with McFarland Press. In 2020 he published "Excavating Stephen King: a Darwinist Hermeneutic Study of the Fiction" with Rowman & Littlefield.

References

Furtner reading

* Anderson, James. "The Asian Market." 76th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition Collection Cincinnati: Outskirts Press, 2007. * Anderson, James. The Linguistics of Stephen King: Layered Language and Meaning in the Fiction
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