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Life and works
'''John Simmons Barth''' (Born 1930) is an American author. His works include ''The Sot-Weed Factor'' (1960), ''Giles Goat-Boy'' (1966), ''Chimera'' (1972), and ''The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor'' (1991).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>
'''John Simmons Barth''' (Born 1930) is an American author. His works include ''The Sot-Weed Factor'' (1960), ''Giles Goat-Boy'' (1966), ''Chimera'' (1972), and ''The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor'' (1991).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>
==Life and Works==
Barth was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 27, 1930, and attended Johns Hopkins University.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/john-barth-37922</ref> Upon graduating high school, he attended Julliard School of Music to study jazz, and then attended Johns Hopkins to study in journalism and creative writing.<ref>http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Barth__John.html</ref> He wrote his first two novels, ''The Floating Opera'' (1956) and ''The End of the Road'' (1958) about those who recognize a futility in action.<ref>"Barth, John." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>
His first notable novel, ''The Sot-Weed Factor'', describes a poet who wrote a poem by the same name, and illustrates him as an innocent confused with why his poem became a satire about the colonization of Maryland.<ref>http://www.biblio.com/john-barth/author/1796</ref> Besides writing, he taught at Penn State, SUNY Buffalo, Boston University, and Johns Hopkins.<ref>http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0121.xml</ref> Penn State was the setting of his mythical satires ''Giles Goat-Boy'' and ''Chimera''. He was very popular as a teacher on the Eastern Seaboard.<ref>https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2015/spring/john-barth/</ref>
He is still alive and continues to produce short stories for a living.
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