Donald Barthelme

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Donald Barthelme was an American postmodern short story writer and novelist known for his experimental, fragmentary style and darkly comic, metafictional narratives.

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instanceOf human
novelist
postmodernist writer
short story writer
writer
awardReceived National Book Award for Fiction NERFINISHED
burialPlace Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath throat cancer
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1931-04-07
dateOfDeath 1989-07-23
educatedAt University of Houston NERFINISHED
employer The New Yorker NERFINISHED
familyName Barthelme NERFINISHED
gender male
genre metafiction
novel
short story
givenName Donald NERFINISHED
hasInfluenced postmodern American fiction
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement postmodern literature
name Donald Barthelme NERFINISHED
nationality American
notableFor collage-like narrative structures
innovative short stories
notableWork City Life NERFINISHED
Come Back, Dr. Caligari NERFINISHED
Forty Stories NERFINISHED
Guilty Pleasures NERFINISHED
Paradise NERFINISHED
Sixty Stories NERFINISHED
Snow White NERFINISHED
The Dead Father NERFINISHED
The King NERFINISHED
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts NERFINISHED
occupation novelist
short story writer
writer
placeOfBirth Philadelphia
surface form: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
placeOfDeath Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED
publishedIn The New Yorker NERFINISHED
residence Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED
sibling Frederick Barthelme NERFINISHED
Steven Barthelme NERFINISHED
style darkly comic tone
experimental prose
fragmentary narrative
metafictional techniques

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