John Barth Cambridge, Maryland`de doğdu. Johns Hopkins üniversitesini 1951`de bitirdi. Penn Eyalet Üniversitesi`nde 1953-65, Buffalo Üniversitesi`nde 1965-73, Boston Üniversitesi`nde 1972-73 ve Johns Hopkins Üniversitesi`nde 1973-95 yıllarında profesörlük yaptı. 1995`de emekliye ayrıldı.
Eserleri
Kurgusal- The Floating Opera (1957)
- The End of the Road (1958)
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
- Giles Goat-Boy, or, The Revised New Syllabus (1966)
- Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice (hikayeler) (1968)
- Chimera (üç kitaplık roman) (1972)
- LETTERS: A Novel (1979)
- Sabbatical: A Romance (1982)
- The Tidewater Tales: A Novel (1987)
- The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991)
- Once upon a Time: A Floating Opera (1994)
- On with the Story (stories) (1996)
- Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative (2001)
- The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories (2004)
- Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas (2005)
Kurgusal Olmayan
- The Friday Book (1984)
- Further Fridays (1995)
Kaynaklar
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