[bahr-thuh
l-mey, ‑tl-mee] 
| 1. | Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist. |
| 2. | his brother, Frederick, born 1943, U.S. short-story writer and novelist. |
| Bar·thel·me (bär'thəl-mē') American writer whose sometimes surrealistic stories of modern American life have been published in collections such as Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968). |