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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Barth - Died April 2, 2024 - age 93 - postmodern novelist, taught at Johns Hopkins University

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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