A Brief Introduction of the Author Donald Barthelme is an American writer known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction and his best-known work is Snow White. Barthelmes stories typically avoid traditional plot structures, relying instead on a steady accumulation of seemingly-unrelated detail, and always subvert the readers expectations through constant non-sequiturs. With the weird and black humored writing style, Barthelme is therecipientofmanyawards and honors, includi