Education
Bachelor, Valparaiso University, 1970. Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973. CPhil, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975.
Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1979.
(Raised by an outspoken single mother, Mac coaches women's...)
Raised by an outspoken single mother, Mac coaches women's high school basketball in a New Orleans public school. When Mac encourages a star athlete, Barbara Jeanne Bordelon, to play on the boy's basketball team, he incurs a flurry of public scrutiny that puts him in the path of radical feminists and evangelical Christians. Set in the 1970s to coincide with the Title IX ruling, Courting Pandemonium looks back on the landmark equal rights case with the singular mix of poignancy and absurdist humor Barton is known for.
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(A year after his attorney wife is killed in a car acciden...)
A year after his attorney wife is killed in a car accident, Mike Barnett returns home to find his house ransacked and his wife's law files stolen, and he begins to suspect that his wife's death was no accident. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
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(Set in the civil rights era, A House Divided explores the...)
Set in the civil rights era, A House Divided explores the private and public lives of two men, united in philosophy and friendship but divided by race, class and the circumstances of their rearing ―and how their personal choices affect their public lives. The novel is at once a murder mystery and a reflection on a turbulent time in American history.
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(Set in the civil rights era, A House Divided explores the...)
Set in the civil rights era, A House Divided explores the private and public lives of two men, united in philosophy and friendship but divided by race, class and the circumstances of their rearing ―and how their personal choices affect their public lives. The novel is at once a murder mystery and a reflection on a turbulent time in American history.
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academic administrator educator writer
Bachelor, Valparaiso University, 1970. Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973. CPhil, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975.
Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1979.
Teacher, coach Lutheran High School, St. Louis, 1970-1972. Carnival barker Ted Towne Entertainment, Los Angeles, 1973-1975. Teaching assistant University of California at Los Angeles, 1975-1976.
Assistant editor Institutions Magazine, Chicago, 1978. Teaching fellow University Iowa, Iowa City, 1978—1979. English professor University New Orleans, since 1979, dean Liberal Arts College, 2000—2004, provost, vice chancellor academy affairs, 2003—2008.
Creative writing director, since 2008. Film critic Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, 1980—2008.
(Set in the civil rights era, A House Divided explores the...)
(Set in the civil rights era, A House Divided explores the...)
(A year after his attorney wife is killed in a car acciden...)
(Raised by an outspoken single mother, Mac coaches women's...)
Author: (novels) A House Divided, 1999 (William Faulkner award 2000), The El Cholo Feeing Passes, 1985, Courting Pandemonium, 1986, With Extreme Prejudice, 1993, (play) Ash Wednesday, 1998, (screenplay) Early Warning, 2001. Columnist: Balcony Seats, since 1980 (Alex Waller Memorial award 1984). Actor: (film) Early Warning, 2001.
Board director Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, since 1986. Member Valparaiso University Christ College National Council. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (treasurer Gulf South 1993-1994), Authors Guild, Press Club New Orleans (board director 1993-1995, Alex Waller Memorial award 1984, Outstanding Journalism Performance award 1985, 91, 92, 96, 99, 2004, Criticism prize 1984, 86-90, 92, 94, 97, 2000, 01, 02).
Life partner: Joyce Markrid Dombourian.
