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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930
- Works
- 58
Top works
- The Best American Short Stories 2007
- Once upon a time
- Sof ha-derekh ; ha-Operah ha-tsafah
- PEN AMERICA A Journal for Writers and Readers
- Lost in the funhouse
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Film & TV
Writing · Cambridge, Maryland - USA
John Simmons Barth (May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold War world; and Lost…
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
Discography
- Essence of Giraffe2002
- I Got You in My Dream2003
- Under the Trampoline2006
- Cuchillo2008
- Cuchillo Revisited2008
- Film Music, Vol. 12013
- Cold Smoke2014
- Like Cavemen Do2025
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18
- Total plays
- 56
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,670x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,728x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,357x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,339x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,859x
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Quotes
- “The night-sea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a Shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.”
- “One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.”
- “Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to “penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,” as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.”
- “[N]othing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it, from outside, by people.”
- “[T]here is no will-o'-the-wisp so elusive as the cause of any human act.”
- “[I]t is sometimes pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1930-05-27 ) May 27, 1930, Cambridge, Maryland , U.S.
- Died
- April 2, 2024 (2024-04-02) (aged 93), Bonita Springs, Florida , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist academic
- Education
- Juilliard School Johns Hopkins University ( BA , MA )
- Period
- 1956–2022
- Genre
- Postmodernism metafiction
- Notable awards
- National Book Award , 1973 Chimera
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Author John Barth (46716317801).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1930-05-27
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- floruit
- 1973-01-01
- name in native language
- John Simmons Barth
- Commons category
- John Barth
- date of death
- 2024-04-02
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
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Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to John Barth, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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John Simmons Barth (/bɑːrθ/; May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold War world; and Lost in the Funhouse, a self-referential and experimental collection of short stories. He was co-recipient of the National Book Award in 1973 for his episodic novel Chimera.
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