Steven Barthelme (born 1947) is the author of numerous short stories and essays.
Steven Barthelme (born 1947) is the author of numerous short stories and essays.
He was born to Donald Barthelme Sr. 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 Jr. and Frederick also became notable authors.
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.
He is the former director of The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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.
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