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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barthelme, Steven Writers from Texas Writers from Mississippi Johns Hopkins University alumni 1947 births Living people 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists
Steven Barthelme (born 1947) is the author of numerous short stories
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and essays.
Early life
He was born to Donald Barthelme Snr. and mother Helen Bechtold ofPhiladelphia
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who had four other children. His father was a modernist architect
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in Houston
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.
Steven Barthelme attended Johns Hopkins University
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. His brothers Donald Jnr. and Frederick Frederick may refer to:
People
* Frederick (given name), the name
Given name
Nobility
= Anhalt-Harzgerode =
* Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670)
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also became notable authors.
Career
His published works include, ''And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story'', ''Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss'' (with brotherFrederick Barthelme
Fredrick Barthelme (born October 10, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer of minimalist fiction. He is the director of the Center For Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi and editor of ''New World Writing'' (formerl ...
), and ''The Early Posthumous Work'' (essays which originally appeared in ''The New Yorker
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'', ''New York Times
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'', ''Oxford American
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First publication
The magazine was founded in late 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi, by Marc Smirnoff (born July 11, 1963).
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'', ''Elle Decor
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'', and other publications).
Barthelme is said to write in a distinctive "post-Southern" style.
He is the former director of The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi
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.
Awards
He wonPushcart Prize
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s in 1993 and 2005, and in 2004 he won the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award for work published in ''Yale Review
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''.
Bibliography
Collections
* ''And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story''. Johns Hopkins, 1987. * ''The Early Posthumous Work''. Red Hen Press, 2010. * ''Hush Hush: Stories''. Melville House, 2012.Nonfiction
* "White Guy," ''Brevity'', 2011. * "Talent and Fifty Cents," ''Essay Daily'', 2014 * ''Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss'' (withFrederick Barthelme
Fredrick Barthelme (born October 10, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer of minimalist fiction. He is the director of the Center For Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi and editor of ''New World Writing'' (formerl ...
). Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Awards
*Pushcart Prize
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, short story, "Claire," from ''Yale Review'', 2005
*Listed in "100 Distinguished Short Stories" ''Best American Short Stories 2004'', 2004
*Texas Institute of Letters
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, Short Story Award. "Claire," 2004
*Mississippi Arts Commission Artist's Fellowship, Fiction, 2000
*Texas Institute of Letters, O. Henry Award for Magazine Journalism, "Good Losers" [from ''The New Yorker'', co-authored with Frederick Barthelme
Fredrick Barthelme (born October 10, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer of minimalist fiction. He is the director of the Center For Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi and editor of ''New World Writing'' (formerl ...
], 2000
References
External links
Center for Writers at USM
Faculty Profile
Author Page at Melville House
Red Hen Press
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