Professor John Barth, taught creative
writing at Johns Hopkins Univ., Maryland;
Innovative novelist (postmodern) whose darkly comic
and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature.
Author of 20 books including
Giles Goat-Boy
The Sot-Weed Factor
He told others that he felt like
Scheherazade desperately trying to survive
by creating literature.
He took part in Bill Moyers' GENESIS
discussions (Part III : The First Murder)
alongside Rebecca Goldstein, Mary Gordon,
Oscar Hujuelos, Charles Johnson, Faye
Kellerman, and Burton L. Visotzky.
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