Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989) was an American author of short fiction and novels. He also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961-1962), and a professor at various universities.

Other works

Barthelme would go on to write over a hundred more short stories, collected first in City Life (1970), Sadness (1972), Amateurs (1976), Great Days (1979), Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983), and the posthumous Teachings of Don B. (1992). Many of these stories were later reprinted and slightly revised for the collections Sixty Stories (1981) and Forty Stories (1987). Though primarily known for these stories, Barthelme also produced four novels characterized by the same fragmentary style: Snow White (1967), The Dead Father (1975), Paradise (1986), and The King (1990, posthumous).

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1970 - 1972 - 1976 - 1979 - 1983 - Posthumous - 1992 - 1981 - 1987 - 1967 - 1975 - 1986 - 1990

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Barthelme also wrote the non-fiction Guilty Pleasures (1974) and the collection Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme. With his daughter, he wrote the children's book The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, and received the National Book Award for Children's Literature in 1972 for this effort. He was also a director of PEN and the Author's Guild, and a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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1974 - National Book Award - 1972 - PEN - American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

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