Frederick Barthelme

Frederick Barthelme studied fiction with John Barth at The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in the mid-seventies, from which he received his Master of Arts degree. From 1977-2010 he taught fiction writing and directed the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He won numerous awards including individual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and diverse grants and awards as editor of Mississippi Review , the literary magazine he edited in print 1977-2010, and for...See more

Frederick Barthelme studied fiction with John Barth at The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in the mid-seventies, from which he received his Master of Arts degree. From 1977-2010 he taught fiction writing and directed the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He won numerous awards including individual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and diverse grants and awards as editor of Mississippi Review , the literary magazine he edited in print 1977-2010, and for the independent electronic magazine Mississippi Review Online which he founded and edited 1995-2010. He is the author of sixteen books of fiction and nonfiction including Moon Deluxe , Second Marriage , Tracer , Two Against One , Natural Selection , The Brothers , Painted Desert , Bob the Gambler , Elroy Nights , and Waveland . He provided texts for Susan Lipper's 1999 book of photographs, Trip , and is an occasional contributor to The New Yorker . He has published fiction and nonfiction in GQ , Fiction , Kansas Quarterly , Epoch , Ploughshares , Playboy , Esquire , TriQuarterly , North American Review , The New York Times , Frank , The Southern Review , the Boston Globe Magazine , and elsewhere. His work has been translated into nine languages. His memoir, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss , was co-authored with his brother Steven, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The same honor was awarded his retrospective collection of stories, The Law of Averages . His novel Elroy Nights was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was one of five finalists for the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2009 he published Waveland , a novel set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast a year after Katrina. In 2010 he won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and is presently editor and publisher of the online literary publication Blip Magazine . See less