Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme was born in Philadelphia in 1931 and grew up in Houston, the son of an architect who designed for his family one of the city's first modernist houses. A journalist at the Houston Post, he was drafted in 1953 and arrived in Korea on the day of the armistice. He directed the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, then became editor of an art magazine in New York. He published most of his stories in the New Yorker, produced four novels and seven collections, taught writing in New York and Houston, and died in Houston in 1989.

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• Short storiesUnspeakable Practices, Unnatural ActsDonald Barthelme · 1968Literature