Arthur S. Koki

Arthur S. Koki (1937–1989) was an academic who wrote a master's thesis on H. P. Lovecraft at Columbia University in 1962. It is the first detailed account of Lovecraft's life, and remains one of the most substantive scholarly examinations if the writer's life and work. It was published as H. P. Lovecraft: An Introduction to His Life and Writings by Hippocampus Press in 2022. 
Koki, whose parents were born in Albania, wrote an honor's thesis on Lovecraft at Clark University in 1960. Koki went on to study with Hart Crane scholar John Unterecker at Columbia, and later became a professor at Pennsylvania's Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.
Koki's master's thesis was based on extensive original research, including interviews with Lovecraft correspondents Donald Wandrei and Wilfred B. Talman, and his second cousin Ethel Phillips Morrish, among others.
Koki's paper was a significant source for L. Sprague de Camp’s Lovecraft: A Biography (1975).
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