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4 unusual facts about John Barth


Every Third Thought

Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons is a novel by American writer John Barth, published in 2011.

Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera

Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera is a novel by American writer John Barth, published in 1994.

Piscataway, Maryland

The same subject was the subject of a novel by the same name by John Barth.

The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor is a novel by American writer John Barth, published in 1991.


Eckhard Gerdes

Gerdes is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, issues of which are usually Festschrifts on a single writer (e.g. John Barth, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe).

Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

In his years at Hopkins, a period during which he married Eva Redfield in 1951 and worked part-time as a newspaper copy editor, Rubin studied under poet Elliott Coleman and historian C. Vann Woodward, served as editor of The Hopkins Review, and taught creative writing (an early student was novelist John Barth).

Quim Monzó

He has also translated a large number of authors, including Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Hardy, Harvey Fierstein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Roald Dahl, Mary Shelley, Javier Tomeo, Arthur Miller, and Eric Bogosian.


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