Barthelme
Americannoun
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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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His college, however, was filled with such famous authors as Michel Foucault, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and J.M.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026
In 1965, Mr. Friedman edited an anthology called “Black Humor,” which contained edgy, sardonic writing by Joseph Heller, Donald Barthelme and Thomas Pynchon, among others.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
Barthelme found the semicolon “ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
Some writers like John Barth, Donald Barthelme and William Gass created self-conscious, postmodernist fictions that put more emphasis on form and language than on conventional storytelling.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2018
The writings of Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Barthe are not casual reading, for sheer enjoyment or excitement.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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