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John Barth (1930–2024) was an American writer, novelist, and university teacher. Born in Cambridge, Maryland, he was educated at the Juilliard School and Johns Hopkins University. His literary career began in 1956, with a focus on literature and postmodern literature. He served as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, the University at Buffalo, Boston University, and Pennsylvania State University.
Barth was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the PEN/Malamud Award and was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his works are *Lost in the funhouse*, *The Best American Short Stories 2007*, and *Once upon a time*. He died in Bonita Springs in 2024.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930
- Works
- 58
Top works
- The Best American Short Stories 2007
- Once upon a time
- Sof ha-derekh ; ha-Operah ha-tsafah
- PEN AMERICA A Journal for Writers and Readers
- Lost in the funhouse
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Cambridge, Maryland - USA
John Simmons Barth (May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold War world; and Lost…
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
Discography
- Essence of Giraffe2002
- I Got You in My Dream2003
- Under the Trampoline2006
- Cuchillo2008
- Cuchillo Revisited2008
- Film Music, Vol. 12013
- Cold Smoke2014
- Like Cavemen Do2025
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18
- Total plays
- 56
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,615x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,656x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,917x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,587x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,134x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The night-sea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a Shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.”
- “One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.”
- “Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to “penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,” as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.”
- “[N]othing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it, from outside, by people.”
- “[T]here is no will-o'-the-wisp so elusive as the cause of any human act.”
- “[I]t is sometimes pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1930-05-27 ) May 27, 1930, Cambridge, Maryland , U.S.
- Died
- April 2, 2024 (2024-04-02) (aged 93), Bonita Springs, Florida , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist academic
- Education
- Juilliard School Johns Hopkins University ( BA , MA )
- Period
- 1956–2022
- Genre
- Postmodernism metafiction
- Notable awards
- National Book Award , 1973 Chimera
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Place of death
- Bonita Springs
- Occupation
- novelist
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins University
- Employer
- Pennsylvania State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- postmodern literature
- Image
- Author John Barth (46716317801).jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1930-05-27
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- floruit
- 1973-01-01
- name in native language
- John Simmons Barth
- Commons category
- John Barth
- date of death
- 2024-04-02
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to John Barth, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
John Simmons Barth (/bɑːrθ/; May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold War world; and Lost in the Funhouse, a self-referential and experimental collection of short stories. He was co-recipient of the National Book Award in 1973 for his episodic novel Chimera.
Life
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