Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) was born in Philadelphia and raised in Houston, the son of a modernist architect. He worked as a newspaper reporter, edited a university magazine and the arts journal Location, and directed Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum before moving to New York. Most of his short fiction first appeared in The New Yorker. He wrote four novels, including Snow White (1967), and taught creative writing at the University of Houston until his death from cancer.
Sixty Stories is Donald Barthelme's own selection of his short fiction from roughly two decades, drawn from collections such as Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, City Life, Sadness, Amateurs and Great Days, together with some previously uncollected pieces. The stories are short, often only a few pages, and are among the defining works of American postmodern fiction.
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