唐纳德·巴塞尔姆（Donald Barthelme，1931年4月7日－****年7月23日）是美国后现代主义小说家，代表作是《白雪公主》。他一生写了大量的短篇小说，并曾从事新闻记者、杂志编辑等工作，并曾在纽约城市大学任教。

虽然以短篇小说闻名，巴塞尔姆一生中亦着有四部中长篇小说：《白雪公主》（Snow White），《死去的父亲》（The Dead Father），《天堂》（Paradise）以及 The King。他的一百多篇短篇收集在 《Come Back, Dr. Caligari》、 《Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts》《City Life》和《Sadness》等书中。另外，它的大部分作品汇集在了《故事六十篇》（Sixty Stories）和《故事四十篇》（Forty Stories）之中。巴塞尔姆还着有一些非小说书籍，如：《Guilty Pleasures》、《Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme》。并和女儿一道写了儿童文学作品《The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine》，并因此在1972年获得美国国家图书奖。

This article is about the author, Donald Barthelme Jr. For his father, the architect, see Donald Barthelme (architect).

Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, ****) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch), and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.