Background
Barthelme, Donald was born in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Donald and Helen (Bechtold) Barthelme.
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The Dead Father (FSG Classics)
( The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, ...)
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The Dead Father, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive."
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Overnight to Many Distant Cities
(A collection of 24 short stories.)
A collection of 24 short stories.
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Overnight to Many Distant Cities Hardcover - November 22, 1983
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Dead Father 1st Printing
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Sixty Stories (Penguin Classics)
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- The Dead Father (#4945)
- The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Or, the Hithering Thithering Djinn (Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house th...)
- Flying to America: 45 More Stories (Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inve...)
- The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Or- the Hithering Thithering Djinn by Barthelme Donald (1-Jan-1971) Hardcover
- Snow White (An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fai...)
- Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or the Hithering Thithering Idiot
- The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine; or The Hithering Thithering Djinn (Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house th...)
- Sadness
- The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Or, the Hithering Thithering Djinn by Donald Barthelme (2006-11-16)
- The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or the Hithering Dithering Djinn
Donald Barthelme Edit Profile
Donald Barthelme, American author. Recipient National Institute Arts and Letters award, 1972, Rea award for Short Story, 1988; Guggenheim fellow, 1966; Memorial scholarship for writing students established at University Houston in his name. With United States Army, 1953-1954. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors Guild, Authors League American, American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters.
Career
Entertainment reporter, critic Houston Post, from 1955. Later director Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Distinguished visiting professor English City College of New York, 1974, 75.
Cullen professor English University Houston, 1980's.
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The Dead Father (FSG Classics)
( The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, ...)
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Snow White
(An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fai...)
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Flying to America: 45 More Stories
( Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and in...)
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The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Or, the Hithering Thithering Djinn
(Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that gr...)
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The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine; or The Hithering Thithering Djinn
(Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that gr...)
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Overnight to Many Distant Cities
(A collection of 24 short stories.)
- The Dead Father (#4945)
- The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Or- the Hithering Thithering Djinn by Barthelme Donald (1-Jan-1971) Hardcover
- Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or the Hithering Thithering Idiot
- Overnight to Many Distant Cities Hardcover - November 22, 1983
- Dead Father 1st Printing
- Sadness
- The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Or, the Hithering Thithering Djinn by Donald Barthelme (2006-11-16)
- Sixty Stories (Penguin Classics)
- The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or the Hithering Dithering Djinn
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The Dead Father (FSG Classics)
Membership
With United States Army, 1953-1954. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors Guild, Authors League American, American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters.
Connections
Married Marion Knox, May 26, 1978. Children: Anne, Katharine.
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American