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| Editor | Martha Foley |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-9997371447 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1948 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1950 |
The Best American Short Stories 1949 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 |
|---|---|---|
| George Albee | "Mighty, Mighty Pretty" | Story |
| Livingston Biddle, Jr. | "The Vacation" | Cosmopolitan Magazine |
| Elizabeth Bishop | "The Farmer's Children" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Paul Bowles | "Under the Sky" | Partisan Review |
| Frank Brookhouser | "My Father and the Circus" | University of Kansas City Review |
| Borden Deal | "Exodus" | Tomorrow Magazine |
| Adele Dolokhov | "Small Miracle" | Today's Woman |
| Ward Dorrance | "The White Hound" | The Hudson Review |
| Henry Gregor Felsen | "Li Chang's Million" | Woman's Day Magazine |
| Robert Gibbons | "Departure of Hubbard" | Tomorrow Magazine |
| Beatrice Griffith | "In the Flow of Time" | Common Ground |
| Elizabeth Hardwick | "Evenings at Home" | Partisan Review |
| Joseph Heller | "Castle of Snow" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Ruth Herschberger | "A Sound in the Night" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Laura Hunter | "Jerry" | Mademoiselle |
| Jim Kjelgaard | "Of the River and Uncle Pidcock" | Adventure |
| Roderick Lull | "Footnote to American History" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| T. D. Mabry | "The Vault" | The Kenyon Review |
| Agnes Macdonald | "Vacia" | Accent |
| Jane Mayhall | "The Men" | Perspective |
| Patrick Morgan | "The Heifer" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Irving Pfeffer | "All Prisoners Here" | Harper's Magazine |
| John Rogers | "Episode of a House Remembered" | Wake |
| J. D. Salinger | "A Girl I Knew" | Good Housekeeping |
| Alfredo Segre | "Justice Has No Number" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| Madelon Shapiro | "An Island For My Friends" | Bard Review |
| Jean Stafford | "Children Are Bored on Sunday" | The New Yorker |
| Jessamyn West | "Road to the Isles" | The New Yorker |
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