Steven Barthelme (born 1947) is the author of numerous short stories and essays. His published works include And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss (with brother Frederick Barthelme), and The Early Posthumous Work (essays which originally appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American, Elle Decor, and other publications). His brothers Donald and Frederick also became notable authors. His father, Donald Barthelme, Sr., was a well-known modernist architect in Houston. He won Pushcart Prizes in 1993 and 2005, and in 2004 he won the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award for work published in Yale Review. Barthelme is said to write in a distinctive "post-Southern" style. He is the former director of The Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi. Bibliography Collections And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story. Johns Hopkins, 1987. The Early Posthumous Work. Red Hen Press, 2010. Hush Hush: Stories. Melville House, 2012. Nonfiction 'White Guy.' Brevity, 2011. 'Talent and Fifty Cents'. Essay Daily, 2014 Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Awards Pushcart Prize, short story, "Claire," from Yale Review, 2005 Listed in "100 Distinguished Short Stories" Best American Short Stories 2004, 2004 Texas Institute of Letters, Short Story Award. "Claire," 2004 Mississippi Arts Commission Artist's Fellowship, Fiction, 2000 Texas Institute of Letters, O.Henry Award for Magazine Journalism, "Good Losers" [from The New Yorker, co-authored with Frederick Barthelme], 2000 References External links Center for Writers at USM Faculty Profile Author Page at Melville House Red Hen Press Writers from Texas Writers from Mississippi Johns Hopkins University alumni 1947 births Living people 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists