Donald Barthelme is a winner of the National Book Award and is the author of over seventeen books, including Flying to America , City Life (one of Time Magazine \'s Best Books of the Year), and Sixty Stories , which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
He died in 1989..
He was a founder of the renowned University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he taught for many years.
Donald Barthelme is a winner of the National Book Award and is the author of over seventeen books, including Flying to America , City Life (one of Time Magazine \'s Best Books of the Year), and Sixty Stories , which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize