John Barth

John Simmons Barth (Cambridge, Maryland, 27.5. 1930.) je američki romanopisac i novleist, poznat po postmodernističkim i metraproznim djelima.

Obrazovanje je stekao na Juilliardu i Univerzitetu Johns Hopkins, gdje je 1952. za potrebe magistarskog rata napisao roman The Shirt of Nessus).

Bio je profesor na Državnom univerzitetu Pensilvanije (1953-1965), Univerzitetu u Buffalou (1965-1973), Bostonskom Univerzitetu (gostujući profesor, 1972-1973) i Johns Hopkinsu (1973-1995) prije umirovljenja 1995 godine.

Izabrana djela

Proza

• The Floating Opera (1957)
• The End of the Road (1958)
• The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
• Giles Goat-Boy, or, The Revised New Syllabus (1966)
• Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice (priče) (1968)
• Chimera (tri povezane pripovjetke) (1972)
• LETTERS (1979)
• Sabbatical: A Romance (1982)
• The Tidewater Tales (1987)
• The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991)
• Once upon a Time: A Floating Opera (memoarski roman) (1994)
• On with the Story (priče) (1996)
• Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative (2001)
• The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories (2004)
• Where Three Roads Meet (tri povezane pripovjetke) (2005)

Publicistika

• The Friday Book (1984)
• Further Fridays (1995)

Eksterni linkovi

• John Barth Information Center
• Scriptorium - John Barth
• Reading John Barth: an essay by Charles Harris (from CONTEXT Quarterly at CenterforBookCulture.org)
• North American Postmodern Fiction: John Barth
• Šablon:WiredForBooks
• Barth audio goodies at the Lannan site
• Two-part interview on KCRW's radio program 'Bookworm' with Michael Silverblatt (also at the Lannan site)
• The fantastic "click!", a short story centered on hypertextuality