Frederick Barthelme

Fredrick Barthelme (born October 10, 1943)^{[citation needed]} is an American novelist and short story writer of minimalist fiction. He is the director of the Center For Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi and editor of New World Writing^[1] (formerly Blip Magazine)^[2]

Fredrick Barthelme
Born	(1943-10-10) October 10, 1943 (age 81) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University
Relatives	Donald Barthelme (brother) Steven Barthelme (brother)

Early life

Barthelme was born in Houston, Texas.^[2]

Life and work

Barthelme was a founding member of the avant-garde experimental rock band the Red Krayola, and left the band to pursue writing and conceptual art in New York.^[3][4][5]

His writing focuses on the landscape of the New South. Along with being a minimalist, his work has also been described as "dirty realism" and "Kmart realism".^[6] He published his first short story in The New Yorker.^[7]

Barthelme was the editor of Mississippi Review for three years.^[8] He is the director of the Center For Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi and editor of New World Writing^[1] (formerly Blip Magazine).^[2]

Personal life

His brothers Donald Barthelme and Steven Barthelme are also writers.

Publications

Novels

• War and War, 1971.
• Second Marriage New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
• Tracer New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
• Two Against One New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
• Natural Selection New York: Viking, 1989.
• The Brothers New York: Viking, 1993.
• Painted Desert New York: Viking, 1995.
• Bob the Gambler Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1997.
• Elroy Nights Cambridge: Counterpoint, 2003.
• Waveland New York: Doubleday, 2009.
• There Must Be Some Mistake New York: Little Brown, 2014.

Story collections

• Rangoon 1970.
• Moon Deluxe Simon & Schuster, 1983.
• Chroma Simon & Schuster, 1987.
• The Law of Averages: New & Selected Stories Counterpoint, 2000.
• "trip" (text) photographs by Susan Lipper Powerhouse Books, 1998.

Memoirs

• (With Steven Barthelme) Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Screenplays

• Second Marriage 1985.
• Tracer 1986.

Awards

• 1976–77 Eliot Coleman Award for prose from Johns Hopkins University for his short story, "Storyteller"^{[citation needed]}
• 1979, 1980 National Endowment for the Arts grant^{[citation needed]}
• 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction nomination for Elroy Nights^{[citation needed]}
• 2010 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters fiction award for Waveland^{[citation needed]}