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John Barth was born on 27 May, 1930 in Cambridge, Maryland, U.S., is an American writer (born 1930). Discover John Barth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Occupation Novelist, professor
Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 27 May 1930
Birthday 27 May
Birthplace Cambridge, Maryland, U.S.
Date of death 2 April, 2024
Died Place Bonita Springs, Florida, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1930

John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American writer who is best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction.

1947

In 1947 he graduated from Cambridge High School, where he played drums and wrote for the school newspaper.

1950

Barth married Harriet Anne Strickland on January 11, 1950.

He published two short stories that same year, one in Johns Hopkins's student literary magazine and one in The Hopkins Review.

1951

He briefly studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before attending Johns Hopkins University, where he received a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952.

His thesis novel, The Shirt of Nessus, drew on his experiences at Johns Hopkins.

His daughter, Christine Ann, was born in the summer of 1951.

His son, John Strickland, was born the following year.

1953

From 1953 to 1965, Barth was a professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he met his second and current wife, Shelly Rosenberg.

1954

His third child, Daniel Stephen, was born in 1954.

1960

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.

The Sot-Weed Factor (1960; the title is an archaic phrase meaning "the tobacco merchant") was initially intended as completing a trilogy of "realist" novels, but developed into a different project and is seen as marking Barth's discovery of postmodernism.

It reimagines the life of Ebenezer Cooke, a poet in colonial Maryland, and recounts a series of fantastic and often comic adventures, including a farcical revisionist account of the story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, eventually leading Cooke to write the narrative poem of the title.

1965

In 1965, he moved to the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he taught from 1965 to 1973.

In that period he came to know "the remarkable short fiction" of the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, which inspired his collection Lost in the Funhouse.

1966

Barth's next novel, Giles Goat-Boy (1966), is a lengthy satirical fantasy based on the conceit of a university as the world of the Cold War, divided into a secretive East Campus and a more open West Campus.

George Giles, a boy raised as a goat, discovers his humanity and sets out on a quest to become a "Grand Tutor", a messiah-like spiritual leader within the university.

The story is presented as a computer tape given to Barth, who denies in the text that it is his work.

In the course of the novel Giles carries out all the tasks attributed to mythical heroes in Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

It was a surprise best-seller and raised Barth's profile, calling more attention to his earlier work.

1967

In 1967, he wrote a highly influential and, to some, controversial essay considered a manifesto of postmodernism, The Literature of Exhaustion (first printed in The Atlantic, 1967).

It depicts literary realism as a "used-up" tradition; Barth's description of his own work, which many thought illustrated a core trait of postmodernism, is "novels which imitate the form of a novel, by an author who imitates the role of author".

The essay was widely considered a statement of "the death of the novel", (compare with Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author").

1968

The short story collection Lost in the Funhouse (1968) and the novella collection Chimera (1972) are even more metafictional than their two predecessors, foregrounding the writing process and presenting achievements such as a seven-deep nested quotation.

Chimera shared the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

1972

Barth later taught at Boston University as a visiting professor in 1972–73 and at Johns Hopkins University from 1973 until he retired in 1995.

Barth began his career with The Floating Opera and The End of the Road, two short realist novels that deal wittily with controversial topics, suicide and abortion respectively.

They are straightforward realistic tales; as Barth later remarked, they "didn't know they were novels".

Around 1972, in an interview, Barth declared that "The process [of making a novel] is the content, more or less."

Barth's fiction continues to maintain a precarious balance between postmodern self-consciousness and wordplay and the sympathetic characterization and "page-turning" plotting commonly associated with more traditional genres and subgenres of classic and contemporary storytelling.

While writing these books, Barth was also pondering and discussing the theoretical problems of fiction writing.

1973

He was co-recipient of the National Book Award in 1973 for his episodic novel Chimera.

John Barth, called "Jack", was born in Cambridge, Maryland.

He has an older brother, Bill, and a twin sister Jill.

1979

In his epistolary novel LETTERS (1979), Barth corresponds with characters from his other books.

1987

Later novels such as The Tidewater Tales (1987) and The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991) continue in the metafictional vein, using writers as protagonists who interact with their own and other stories in elaborate ways.

1994

His 1994 Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera casts Barth himself as the protagonist who on a sailing trip encounters characters and situations from previous works.

Barth's work is characterized by a historical awareness of literary tradition and by the practice of rewriting typical of postmodernism.

He said, "I don't know what my view of history is, but insofar as it involves some allowance for repetition and recurrence, reorchestration, and reprise [...] I would always want it to be more in the form of a thing circling out and out and becoming more inclusive each time."

In Barth's postmodern sensibility, parody is a central device.