Donald Barthelme Writer

Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American author known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch), and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

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Birth date	April 07, 1931
Birth place	Philadelphia
Date of death	July 23, 1989
Place of death	Houston , Texas

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Writer

Career start	1951
Career end	1989
genre	Short story
influenced	Thomas Pynchon Susan Sontag Jacob M. Appel David Foster Wallace Donald Antrim Kyle Muntz Dave Eggers Amanda Filipacchi Padgett Powell Eric Miles Williamson Philip Graham (writer) Oscar Hijuelos
influenced by	James Joyce Samuel Beckett Stéphane Mallarmé
movement	Postmodern literature