Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) published twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning children's book. A playful, postmodernist writer, he wrote stories, satires, parodies and other formal experiments that challenged the forms and subjects of literature before him. He was a regular contributor to the New Yorker and taught creative writing at the University of Houston. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Award and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, among others.