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John Barth

1930 - 2024

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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 in the Funhouse, a self-referential and experimental collection of short stories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Barth has received more than 653,198 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. John Barth is the 2,557th most popular writer (down from 2,449th in 2019), the 3,236th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,166th in 2019) and the 281st most popular American Writer.

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  • 650k

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  • 54.31

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

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  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Giles goat-boy
College students, Fiction
1966
The floating opera
Fiction
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1956
Chimera
Mythology, Fiction, Fiction in English
1972
The end of the road
Romance Norte Americano
1958
Lost in the funhouse
1968
The sot-weed factor
Fiction, Poets, History
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Barth ranks 2,557 out of 7,302. Before him are Amélie Nothomb, Andrea Dworkin, Ivan Yefremov, Catulle Mendès, Raffi, and Giraut de Bornelh. After him are David Lodge, Ada Negri, Karel Jaromír Erben, Edvard Kocbek, Nikoloz Baratashvili, and Ouida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, John Barth ranks 198. Before him are Elza Soares, Jean Ferrat, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Pyotr Bolotnikov, Katherine Jackson, and Walter Mischel. After him are Clifford Brown, Tadao Kobayashi, Néstor Almendros, Ernst Fuchs, Georges Descrières, and Jean Vincent. Among people deceased in 2024, John Barth ranks 114. Before him are Francisco Jara, Marlena Shaw, Anatoli Polivoda, Jandira Martini, M. Emmet Walsh, and Michel Jazy. After him are Bill Cobbs, Jean Malaurie, Vernor Vinge, Günter Brus, Brian Mulroney, and William Anders.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Barth ranks 3,236 out of 20,380. Before him are Diane Venora (1952), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Rensis Likert (1903), Rue McClanahan (1934), Vito Acconci (1940), and Roy Sullivan (1912). After him are Jim Thorpe (1887), Sam Wood (1883), Barbara O'Neil (1910), Clifford Brown (1930), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), and Garret Hobart (1844).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Barth ranks 281. Before him are John Edward Williams (1922), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), Katherine Jackson (1930), Alexandra Ripley (1934), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), and Andrea Dworkin (1946). After him are L. Sprague de Camp (1907), Elmore Leonard (1925), Edgar Lee Masters (1868), Jim Thompson (1906), Terry Goodkind (1948), and Neil Simon (1927).

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