Barthelme
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Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
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his brother Frederick, born 1943, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
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Daugherty has also been around the block; he is the author of biographies of Joan Didion, Joseph Heller and Donald Barthelme.
From Los Angeles Times
Nesbit had a serious relationship with the author Donald Barthelme before she married Gilman, and one day, Barthelme telegrammed her from Europe.
From Washington Post
He was the smirking successor of Vonnegut and Barthelme, a big-idea humorist with some postmodern acrobatics tossed in.
From Washington Post
Can we compare him to gumbo, his style a stew of influences encompassing such unlikely pairings as William Faulkner and Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer and Grace Paley, William Trevor and Donald Barthelme?
From New York Times
She’s less playful than the minimalist Barthelme, and less liquidly philosophical than Iris Murdoch.
From New York Times
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