John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work. John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland, and briefly studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before attending Johns Hopkins University, receiving a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952 (for which he wrote a thesis novel, "The Shirt of Nessus"). Wikipedia
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John Barth is the author of numerous books, of which the most recent are Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984-1994 (1995) and On With the Story (1996). www.tnellen.com/cybereng/barth.htm