Frederick Barthelme
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Fredrick Barthelme (b. October 10, 1943) is an American author of short fiction and novels and a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is also the editor of the literary journal The Mississippi Review. He received his M.A. in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with the writer John Barth. His brothers Donald and Steven are also authors. His father, Donald Barthelme, Sr., was a well-known Modernist architect in Houston.
Barthelme's works are known for their focus on the landscape of the New South. He has been labeled a minimalist alongside other writers like Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, and Amy Hempel, and has also been branded with labels like "dirty realist" or "K-mart realist." He published his first short story in The New Yorker and has claimed that a rotisserie chicken helped him understand that he needed to write about ordinary people. He's moved away from the postmodern stylings of his older brother, Donald Barthelme, though his influence can be seen in Barthelme's earliest work, War and War.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Story Collections
- Rangoon 1970.
- Moon Deluxe Simon & Schuster, 1983.
- Chroma Simon & Schuster, 1987.
- The Law of Averages: New & Selected Stories Counterpoint, 2000.
[edit] 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-Miflin, 1997.
- Elroy Nights Cambridge: Counterpoint, 2003.
[edit] Memoirs (non-fiction)
- (With Steven Barthelme) Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
[edit] Screenplays
- Second Marriage 1985.
- Tracer 1986.
