,, and , has died. He was 79. His daughter, Emma Fusco-Straub, also a best-selling author, shared the sad news on Instagram Tuesday.«Peter Francis Straub, the smartest and most fun person in every room he was ever in, 3/2/43 — 9/4/22.
How lucky we were. There aren’t enough words in the world,» she wrote, alongside a slideshow of photos of her father over the years.Straub died Sunday at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, New York.
His wife, Susan Straub, told that the acclaimed author died from complications after breaking a hip.A post shared by Emma Fusco-Straub (@emmastraub)Born in Milwaukee in 1943, Straub's interest in horror started early on, following his own brush with death after getting hit by a car.
In a biography written on his website, Straub shared that «books took him out of himself,» and helped him deal with the nightmares he encountered after the accident.«Because he had learned prematurely that the world was dangerous, he was jumpy, restless, hugely garrulous in spite of his stutter, physically uncomfortable and, at least until he began writing horror three decades later, prone to nightmares,» Straub wrote. «Books took him out of himself, so he read even more than earlier, a youthful habit immeasurably valuable to any writer.
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