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Donald Barthelme

1931 - 1989

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Donald Barthelme Jr. (pronounced BAR-thəl-mee or BAR-təl-mee; April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch), and a professor at various universities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald Barthelme has received more than 432,991 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Donald Barthelme is the 3,537th most popular writer (up from 3,697th in 2019), the 4,538th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,939th in 2019) and the 378th most popular American Writer.

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  • 430k

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  • 58.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Donald Barthelme ranks 3,537 out of 7,302. Before him are Tsubouchi Shōyō, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Molla Panah Vagif, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, and Françoise Giroud. After him are Xiao Hong, Howard Pyle, Edwin Arnold, Cotton Mather, Václav Hanka, and Jien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Donald Barthelme ranks 262. Before him are Rogelio Domínguez, Mickey Mantle, Alvin Ailey, Kyōko Kagawa, Richard Ratsimandrava, and Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani. After him are Stelios Kazantzidis, Gene Wolfe, Paavo Haavikko, Alex Soler-Roig, José Alencar, and Vizma Belševica. Among people deceased in 1989, Donald Barthelme ranks 145. Before him are Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Edoardo Amaldi, José López Rega, Merab Kostava, Alvin Ailey, and Wilfrid Sellars. After him are Pavel Kurochkin, Kazimierz Sabbat, Clyde Geronimi, Ćamil Sijarić, Thorkild Hansen, and Gilles Andriamahazo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald Barthelme ranks 4,538 out of 20,380. Before him are Dorothy Gibson (1889), John Tate (1925), Jubal Early (1816), Clyde Tolson (1900), Crawford Long (1815), and Nathanael Greene (1742). After him are Howard Pyle (1853), Cotton Mather (1663), Holly Marie Combs (1973), Augustine Washington (1694), Broderick Crawford (1911), and Rikky von Opel (1947).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Donald Barthelme ranks 378. Before him are Jeff Lindsay (1952), Dennis Lehane (1965), Adrienne Rich (1929), Sara Teasdale (1884), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), and Kim Stanley Robinson (1952). After him are Howard Pyle (1853), Cotton Mather (1663), Gene Wolfe (1931), Joss Whedon (1964), Robert W. Chambers (1865), and Emma Lazarus (1849).

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