trip  (1993–99)

Silver gelatin prints: 10 x 10 inches, edition of 10 with 2 APs

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Frederick Barthelme Biographical Note

Frederick Barthelme was a founding member, with Mayo Thompson, of the
art/psychedelic rock band Red Krayola, and a painter and conceptual artist
in Houston and New York in the late 1960s. In the mid-seventies he studied
fiction with John Barth at The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, from which
he received his Master of Arts degree. From 1977-2010 he taught fiction writing
and directed the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.
He won numerous awards including individual grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts, and diverse grants and awards as editor of Mississippi Review, the
literary magazine he edited in print 1977-2010 and online 1995-2010. He is author
of sixteen books of fiction and nonfiction including Moon Deluxe, Second Marriage,
Tracer, Two Against One, Natural Selection, The Brothers, Painted Desert, Bob
the Gambler, Elroy Nights, and Waveland. He provided texts for Susan Lipper’s
1999 book of photographs, Trip, and is an occasional contributor to The New Yorker.
He has published fiction and nonfiction in GQ, Fiction, Kansas Quarterly, Epoch,
Ploughshares, Playboy, Esquire, TriQuarterly, North American Review, The New
York Times, Frank, The Southern Review, the Boston Globe Magazine, and
elsewhere. His work has been translated into nine languages. His memoir,
Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, released in November 1999,
was co-authored with his brother Steven, and was a New York Times Notable
Book of the Year. The same honor was awarded his retrospective collection of
stories, The Law of Averages, published by Counterpoint in November 2000.
His novel Elroy Nights, published in October 2003 by Counterpoint, was also a
New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was one of five finalists
for the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2009 he published Waveland, a novel set on the
Mississippi Gulf Coast a year after Katrina. In 2010 he won the Mississippi Institute
of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction. He is presently editor and publisher of an
online literary enterprise called Blip Magazine and is at work on new writing projects.

7/19/11

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