Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme »

Tracy Daugherty's work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Georgia Review, and others. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. Once a student of Donald Barthelme's, he is now Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University.

A compellingly told and enthusiastic biography—makes a page-turner of Barthelme’s passionate search for a place in American letters

The Washington Post - Steven Moore

…not just a modest remembrance but a full-length, meticulously documented study. All dead authors should be so lucky…Daugherty was Barthelme's student in the '80s. The last time Daugherty saw him, six months before he died, his former teacher gave him a new assignment: "Write a story about a genius." He did, and I'd give it an A.