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American writer
Steven Barthelme at the 2012 Texas Book Festival
Steven Barthelme (born 1947) is the author of numerous
short stories and essays. His published works include And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story , Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss (with brother
Frederick Barthelme ), and The Early Posthumous Work (essays which originally appeared in
The New Yorker ,
New York Times ,
Oxford American ,
Elle Decor , and other publications). His brothers
Donald and
Frederick also became notable authors. His father,
Donald Barthelme, Sr. , was a well-known
modernist architect in
Houston .
He won
Pushcart Prizes in 1993 and 2005, and in 2004 he won the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award for work published in
Yale Review .
[1] Barthelme is said to write in a distinctive "post-Southern" style.
[2]
He is the former director of The Center for Writers at the
University of Southern Mississippi .
[3]
Bibliography
Collections
And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story . Johns Hopkins, 1987.
The Early Posthumous Work . Red Hen Press, 2010.
Hush Hush: Stories . Melville House, 2012.
Nonfiction
'White Guy.' Brevity, 2011.
[4]
'Talent and Fifty Cents'. Essay Daily, 2014
Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss . Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Awards
Pushcart Prize , short story, "Claire," from Yale Review, 2005
Listed in "100 Distinguished Short Stories" Best American Short Stories 2004, 2004
Texas Institute of Letters , Short Story Award. "Claire," 2004
Mississippi Arts Commission Artist's Fellowship, Fiction, 2000
Texas Institute of Letters, O. Henry Award for Magazine Journalism, "Good Losers" [from The New Yorker, co-authored with Frederick Barthelme], 2000
[5]
References
External links
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