John Barth
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John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American writer best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.
Life
"Jack" Barth, nicknamed "Jack," was born in Cambridge, Maryland. Bill is his older brother, and Jill has a twin sister Jill. He graduated from Cambridge High School in 1947, where he played drums and wrote for the school newspaper. He briefly studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before arriving at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a B.A. M.A. in 1951 and M.A. In 1952, a man was born in 1952. The Shirt of Nessus, Johns Hopkins' thesis book, drew on his time at Johns Hopkins.
On January 11, 1950, Barth married Harriet Anne Strickland. In the same year, he wrote two short stories, one in Johns Hopkins' student literary journal and one in The Hopkins Review. Christine Ann Ann Ann's daughter was born in 1951. John Strickland, his son, was born the following year.
Barth was a professor at Penn State University, where he met Shelly Rosenberg, his second and current wife. Daniel Stephen Stephen, his third child, was born in 1954. He went to teach at the State University of New York in Buffalo from 1965 to 1973, during the "American High Sixties." He learned "the wonderful short fiction" of Argentina Jorge Luis Borges, which inspired his collection Lost in the Funhouse, during that time.
Barth taught Boston University as a visiting professor in 1972–73 and Johns Hopkins University from 1973 to 1995.
Awards
- 1956 — National Book Award finalist for The Floating Opera
- 1966 — National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in literature
- 1965 — The Brandeis University creative arts award in fiction
- 1965-66 — The Rockefeller Foundation grant in fiction
- 1968 — Nominated for the National Book Award for Lost in the Funhouse
- 1973 — Shared the National Book Award for Chimera with John Edward Williams for Augustus
- 1974 — Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1974 — Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1997 — F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction
- 1998 — Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award
- 1998 — PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story
- 1999 — Enoch Pratt Society's Lifetime Achievement in Letters Award
- 2008 — Roozi Rozegari, Iranian literature prize for best foreign work translation The Floating Opera