Frederick Barthelme

Fredrick Barthelme
Born (1943-10-10) October 10, 1943 (age 80)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
OccupationNovelist

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 the literary journal Mississippi Review. He is currently the editor of New World Writing (formerly Blip Magazine)

Early life

Barthelme was born in Houston, Texas. He was a founding member of the avant-garde experimental rock band The Red Krayola, and left the band to pursue writing and conceptual art in New York. He became a novelist like his brother, Donald Barthelme.

Style

Barthelme's works focus on the landscape of the New South. Along with his reputation as a minimalist (similar to Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Mary Robison), Barthelme's work has also been described by terms such as "dirty realism" and "Kmart realism". He published his first short story in The New Yorker.

Barthelme was thirty-three-year editor of Mississippi Review, known for recognizing and publishing once new talents such as Larry Brown, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Amy Hempel early in their careers. Issues of Mississippi Review have been guest-edited by authors Rick Moody and Mary Robison among others.

Awards

Bibliography

  • "Driver", The Barcelona Review

Story Collections

  • Rangoon 1970.
  • Moon Deluxe Simon & Schuster, 1983.
  • Chroma Simon & Schuster, 1987.
  • The Law of Averages: New & Selected Stories Counterpoint, 2000.
  • "trip" (text) photographs by Susan Lipper Powerhouse Books, 1998.

Novels (fiction)

  • War and War 1971.
  • Second Marriage New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
  • Tracer New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
  • Two Against One New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
  • Natural Selection New York: Viking, 1989.
  • The Brothers New York: Viking, 1993.
  • Painted Desert New York: Viking, 1995.
  • Bob the Gambler Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1997.
  • Elroy Nights Cambridge: Counterpoint, 2003.
  • Waveland New York: Doubleday, 2009.
  • There Must Be Some Mistake New York: Little Brown, 2014.

Memoirs (non-fiction)

  • (With Steven Barthelme) Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Screenplays

  • Second Marriage 1985.
  • Tracer 1986.

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