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NAME: John Barth
OCCUPATION: Educator, Author
BIRTH DATE: May 27, 1930 (Age: 82)
EDUCATION: John Hopkins University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Cambridge, Maryland
Full Name: John Simmons Barth, Jr.
ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini

Best Known For

Some of novelist John Barth’s best-known works, which play with and parody traditional narrative forms, are The Floating Opera and The Tidewater Tales.

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John Barth was born May 27, 1930, Cambridge, Maryland. Apart from the experimental pieces in Lost in the Funhouse, his best-known works include the novels The Floating Opera (1956), The End of the Road (1958), The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) and The Tidewater Tales (1987), most of which parody traditional narrative forms. In 2001 he published the experimental novel Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative.

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