ANNAPOLIS, Md. — John 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, died ...

Postmodern American author John Barth, who wrote “The Sot Weed-Factor” and “Giles Goat-Boy,” died Tuesday. He was 93. The novelist’s death was confirmed by Rachel Wallach, who works in communications ...

In his office at Johns Hopkins, John Barth kept a mobius strip upon which were written the words: Once upon a time there was a story whose beginning was … . There, of course, the mobius strip joined ...

John 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, died Tuesday at a ...

John Barth, who, believing that the old literary conventions were exhausted, extended the limits of storytelling with imaginative and intricately woven novels including “The Sot-Weed Factor” and ...