Barth, John (Simmons)
BARTH, John (Simmons)
BARTH, John (Simmons). American, b. 1930. Genres: Novels, Essays. Career: Pennsylvania State University, instructor to associate professor, 1953-65; State University of New York, Buffalo, professor, 1965-73. Johns Hopkins University, junior instructor, 1951-53, Alumni Centennial Professor of English, 1973-90, professor emeritus, 1990-. Publications: The Floating Opera, 1956, 1967; The End of the Road, 1958, 1967; The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960, 1967; Giles Goat-Boy: or The Revised New Syllabus, 1966; Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice, 1968; Chimera, 1972 (National Book Award); Letters, 1979; Sabbatical: A Romance, 1982; The Literature of Exhaustion, 1982; The Friday Book, 1984; Don't Count on It, 1984; The Tidewater Tales: A Novel, 1987; The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, 1991; Once upon Time: A Floating Opera, 1994; Further Fridays, 1995; On with the Story, 1996; Coming Soon!!!, 2001; The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, 2004. Address: c/o Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A.