Steven Barthelme 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, and The Early Posthumous Work. 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. Stylistically, Barthelme is a realist and a modernist. He is the director of The Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi. 

January 1st, 1947 in (Age 77)