Background
Barthelme, Donald was born in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Donald and Helen (Bechtold) Barthelme.
( 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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Barthelme, Donald was born in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Donald and Helen (Bechtold) Barthelme.
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.
( The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, ...)
(An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fai...)
( Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and in...)
(Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that gr...)
(Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that gr...)
(A collection of 24 short stories.)
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.
Married Marion Knox, May 26, 1978. Children: Anne, Katharine.