John Barth

John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.

Selected Works

Fiction

• The Floating Opera (1957)
• The End of the Road (1958)
• The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
• Giles Goat-Boy (1966)
• Lost in the Funhouse (short stories) (1968)
• Chimera (three linked novellas) (1972)
• Letters (1979)
• ' (1982)
• Tidewater Tales (1987)
• The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991)
• Once upon a Time (1994)
• On with the Story (short stories) (1996)
• Coming Soon! (2001)
• The Book of Ten Nights and a Night (short stories) (2004)

Nonfiction

• The Friday Book (1984)
• Further Fridays (1995)