biography
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Barth, John (Simmons)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Writer and educator, born in Cambridge, Maryland, USA. He studied at Johns Hopkins University where, during a long academic career, he joined the English faculty in 1973. His novels, some set on Maryland's Eastern Shore, were distinctive for their formal ingenuity and an existential questioning bordering on nihilism. They include The End of the Road (1958), Chimera (1972, National Book Award), and Tidewater Tales (1988). A major exception was his second novel, The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), a long, playful parody written in the style of an 18th-c novel. |
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