Steven Barthelme Explained

Steven Barthelme (born 1947) is the author of numerous short stories and essays.

Early life

He was born to Donald Barthelme Snr. and mother Helen Bechtold of Philadelphia who had four other children. His father was a modernist architect in Houston.

Steven Barthelme attended Johns Hopkins University. His brothers Donald Jnr. and Frederick also became notable authors.

Career

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).

Barthelme is said to write in a distinctive "post-Southern" style.^[1]

He is the former director of The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.^[2]

Awards

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.^[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 (with Frederick Barthelme). 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]

External links

• Center for Writers at USM
• Faculty Profile
• Author Page at Melville House
• Red Hen Press

Notes and References

1. Web site: Steven Barthelme . Eudora Welty Series . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220115015/https://www.muw.edu/welty/program/2013/771-steve-barthelme. Dec 20, 2016.
2. Web site: Faculty Publications since 1990. 2009-04-02. dead. https://archive.today/20070502190505/http://www.lib.usm.edu/services/fs/os/facpubs/coal/english1.html. May 2, 2007. mdy-all. The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.
3. Web site: Steve Barthelme. https://web.archive.org/web/20120419062006/https://olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/barthelme_steve/index.html. Apr 19, 2012. The Mississippi Writers Page.
4. Steven. Barthelme. White Guy . Brevity . 35. Jan 2011.
5. Web site: Publications and Awards: Steven Barthelme . https://web.archive.org/web/20160312205125/https://www.usm.edu/english/publications-and-awards-steve-barthelme-0. Mar 12, 2016. The University of Southern Mississippi.