Steven Barthelme

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Steven Barthelme (born 1947) is the author of numerous short stories and essays and a professor at The University of Southern Mississippi. His published works include And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story and (with brother Frederick Barthelme) Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. His brothers Donald and Frederick are also authors. His father, Donald Barthelme, Sr., was a well-known Modernist architect in Houston.

He won Pushcart Prizes in 1993 and 2005, and in 2004 he won the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award for a story published in Yale Review. Stylisticly, Barthelme is a realist and a modernist.