# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-barth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:11:12.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-barth"
name: "John Barth"
slug: "john-barth"
description: "John Simmons Barth was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold War world; and Lost in the Funhouse, a self-referential and experimental collection of short stories. He was co-recipient of the National Book Award in 1973 for his episodic novel Chimera."
tagline: "American writer (1930–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Author_John_Barth_(46716317801).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-05-27"
deathDate: "2024-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.424029351662641
  historical:           23.804912
  currentAttention:     10.36
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0058544"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump