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ANNAPOLIS — John "Jack" Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction,
John Barth, the postmodernist writer whose whimsical novels revolved around the art of literature, has died. He was 93. Johns Hopkins University, where Barth was an emeritus professor, confirmed his
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A National Book Award winner for "Chimera," Mr. Barth taught at Boston University in the early 1970s and spent much of his academic career at Johns Hopkins University.
His comic novels and metafictional stories made him a giant of postmodernism.