Steven Barthelme


Steven Barthelme 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, and The Early Posthumous Work.
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.

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.

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.
  • "Talent and Fifty Cents," Essay Daily, 2014Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Awards