Barthelme, Donald, 1931-1989

Nationality: American

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, PA
Place of Death: Houston, TX, of cancer

Genre(s): Novels; Short Stories; Children's fiction; Fantasy fiction

Award:
Guggenheim fellowship, 1966

Time magazine's Best Books of the Year list, 1971, for City Life

National Book Award for children's literature, 1972, for The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or the Hithering Thithering Djinn

Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1972

Jesse H Jones Award from Texas Institute of Letters, 1976, for The Dead F ather

nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, all for Sixty Stories, all in 1982


Table of Contents:

Personal Information
Career
Writings
Sidelights
Further Readings About the Author
Obituary Sources


Personal Information: Family: Born April 7, 1931, in Philadelphia, PA; died July 23, 1989, in Houston, TX, of cancer; son of Donald (an architect) and Helen (Bechtold) Barthelme; married wife Birgit; married second wife, Marion; children: (first marriage) Anne Katharine. Military/Wartime Service: U.S. Army; served in Korea and Japan. Memberships: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Authors League of America, Authors Guild, PEN.

Career: Writer of short fiction and novels. Worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post and managing editor of Location magazine; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, director, 1961-62. Distinguished visiting professor of English, City College of the City University of New York, 1974-75.