Robert olmstead biography

PERSONAL:

Born January 3, , in Keene, NH; son of James Paul (a factory worker) and Adeline Olmstead; married Cynthia L. Uline, April 9, ; children: Molly, Emily. Education: Syracuse University, B.A., , M.A.,

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of English, Ohio Wesleyan University, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware, OH Agent—Amanda Urban, 40 W. 57th St., New York, NY E-mail—[email&#;protected].

CAREER:

Professor and writer. Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, associate professor of English, —, director of creative writing program. Worked previously as a high school English teacher in Jordan, färsk, , writer-in-residence at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, and director of creative writing at Boise State University, Boise, ID. Has worked variously as a carpenter, lineman, millworker, dishwasher, concrete worker, laborer, and farmer. Guggenheim fellow for fiction, ; National Endowment for the Arts fellow; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature fellow; Pennsy

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Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead&#;s Stay Here with Me

I first met Robert Olmstead in January He was the teacher of my introductory fiction workshop at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Back then you were allowed to smoke cigarettes in class, and if you were a person like me, you not only smoked cigarettes in class, you chain-smoked cigarettes in class. I should explain what it meant to be a “person like me”: a person like me was a person who tried too hard. And inom was the worst kind of person who tried too hard: I was the kind of person who didn’t know what person I was trying too hard to be, and so I tried too hard to be a lot of them. And one of the people I tried too hard to be was Robert Olmstead.

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At that point, Olmstead had written two books—the short story collection River Dogs and the novel Soft Water—and soon after he would publish his novel A Trail of Heart’s Blood Wherever We Go. These three b

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Robert Olmstead

Species

Human/Deep One Hybrid

Robert Martin Olmstead(HPL: "Notes for The Shadow Over Innsmouth") is the narrator of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. It is remarked that his eyes have the same strange qualityseen in all descendants of Obed Marsh. In the story's final pages, he learns he himself is the great-great-grandson of Obed Marsh and a Deep One, and in time will become one of the amphibious monsters he witnessed in Innsmouth.

Growing up in Toledo, he journeys to Massachusetts and stops at Innsmouth almost by chance, as it is on the way from Newburyport to Arkham, while on a journey to discover more of his family roots.

Olmstead's name is never given within the original story, but is given as Robert Martin Olmstead in Lovecraft's notes for the story.

In "The Watcher from the Sky", by August Derleth, a character refers to the Shadow Over Innsmouth narrator as Williamson. In the original story, James Williamson was the name of Olmstead's maternal grandfa