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PEOPLE OF INTEREST
Paul Auster (1947– )
Fiction writer and poet who often employs a sense of the absurd and the crime-
fiction genre to comment on the search for identity. His works include City of
Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986), and The Locked Room (1986), published as The New
York Trilogy in 1987; Moon Palace (1989); The Music of Chance (1990); The Book of
Illusions (2002); Oracle Night (2004); and The Brooklyn Follies (2005).
John Barth (1930– )
Novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose works include The Floating Opera
(1957); The End of the Road (1958); The Sot-Weed Factor (1960); Giles Goat-Boy
(1966); Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice (1968); Chimera
(1972), winner of the National Book Award; LETTERS (1979); Sabbatical
(1982); and The Tidewater Tales (1987).
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)
Author of short stories and novels, editor, and journalist. His stories have been
published in The New Yorker and collected in City Life (1970), Sadness (1972),
Amateurs (1976), Great Days (1979), Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983),
and Sixty Stories (1981). His novels include The Dead Father (1975) and Paradise
(1986).
Ana Castillo (1953– )
Chicana poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her works include the novels The
Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), Sapogonia (1990), So Far from God (1993), Peel My
Love Like an Onion (1999), and The Guardians (2007); the short-story collec-
tion Loverboys (1996); and My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems, 1973–1988
(1995).
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)
Korean American author known for the experimental novel Dictee (1982).
Robert Coover (1932– )
Writer and cofounder of the Electronic Literature Organization, established in
1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic
literature. His most acclaimed works include The Origin of the Brunists (1966),
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc ., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968), Pricksongs
and Descants (1969), The Public Burning (1977), Gerald ’s Party (1986), and A Night
at the Movies; or, You Must Remember This (1987).
Don DeLillo (1936– )
Prolific and wide-ranging novelist who reworks various narrative genres. His
books include White Noise (1985), Underground (1997), Cosmopolis (2003), and
Falling Man (2007).
Trey Ellis (1962– )
Novelist, essayist, memoirist, and blogger whose Right Here, Right Now received
an American Book Award in 1999. Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of
Single-Fatherhood (2008) is a memoir of his life as a single father of two.