| Editor | Martha Foley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9789997371270 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1943 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1945 |
The Best American Short Stories 1944 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [1]
The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction" [2] and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature. [3] [4] [5]
In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs, college libraries, and literary magazines. [6] The Los Angeles Times , reflecting on the hundred-year anniversary of the series, noted that it eventually became an "institution" itself, often being taught in classrooms. [7]
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sidney A. Alexander | "The White Boat" | Accent |
| William E. Barrett | "Señor Payroll" | Southwest Review |
| Saul Bellow | "Notes of a Dangling Man" | Partisan Review |
| Dorothy Canfield | "The Knot Hole" | Yale Review |
| Elizabeth Eastman | "Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Helen Eustis | "The Good Days and the Bad" | Story |
| William Fifield | "The Fishermen of Patzcuaro" | Story |
| Berry Fleming | "Strike Up a Stirring Music" | Yale Review |
| Hazel Hawthorne | "More Like a Coffin" | The New Yorker |
| Noel Houston | "A Local Skirmish" | The New Yorker |
| Shirley Jackson | "Come Dance With Me in Ireland" | The New Yorker |
| Josephine W. Johnson | "The Rented Room" | Harper's Bazaar |
| H. J. Kaplan | "The Mohammedans" | Partisan Review |
| Eyre De Lanux | "The S.S. Libertad" | Tomorrow |
| William March | "The Female of the Fruit Fly" | Mademoiselle |
| Carson McCullers | "The Ballad of the Sad Café" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Astrid Meighan | "Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare" | The New Yorker |
| Mary Mian | "Exiles From the Creuse" | The New Yorker |
| Edita Morris | "Heart of Marzipan" | Mademoiselle |
| Vladimir Nabokov | "'That in Aleppo Once. . .'" | Atlantic Monthly |
| Ruth Portugal | "Neither Here Nor There" | Harper's Bazaar |
| J. F. Powers | "Lions, Harts, Leaping Does" | Accent |
| Gladys Schmitt | "All Souls'" | Collier's |
| Irwin Shaw | "The Veterans Reflect" | Accent |
| George Stiles | "A Return" | Kenyon Review |
| Leon Z. Surmelian | "My Russian Cap" | The New Mexico Quarterly Review |
| Lionel Trilling | "Of This Time, of That Place" | Partisan Review |
| Elizabeth Warner | "An Afternoon" | The New Yorker |
| Jessamyn West | "The Illumination" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Emmanuel Winters | "God's Agents Have Beards" | Harper's Bazaar |