Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme was born in 1931 in Philadelphia and grew up in Houston, Texas, where his father was an architect. He studied journalism at the University of Houston, worked as a newspaper reporter, and was drafted into the army, arriving in Korea just as the war ended. Back in Houston he edited a university magazine and directed the Contemporary Arts Museum before moving to New York in 1962 to edit an art and literature journal. Many of his short stories appeared in The New Yorker. They are brief, witty and unusual, mixing everyday speech with fragments of advertising, history and art, and often breaking the rules of ordinary storytelling. His collections include Come Back, Dr. Caligari, City Life and Sixty Stories (1981), and he wrote the novel Snow White. His children's book The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1972. He later taught creative writing at the University of Houston, where he died in 1989.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; he attended a Catholic high school. Source: Wikipedia