Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme was born April 7, 1931 to Donald and Helen Bechtold Barthelme in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was the first of five children and soon the family moved to Texas for his father to work.  Donald Barthelme would marry four times and have two daughters from his last two marriages.  Barthelme would move back and forth from Texas to New York to write and publish works.  He would die July 23, 1989 due to cancer and even have some of his work from early on be read at his funeral.