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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 | 978-9997371515 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1950 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1952 |
The Best American Short Stories 1951 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Roger Angell | "Flight Through the Dark" | The New Yorker |
| Nathan Asch | "Inland, Western Sea" | The New Yorker |
| Peggy Bennett | "A Fugitive From the Mind" | Mademoiselle |
| Mary Bolte | "The End of the Depression" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Hortense Calisher | "In Greenwich There Are Many Grevelled Walks" | The New Yorker |
| Leonard Casper | "Sense of Direction" | Southwest Review |
| R.V. Cassill | "Larchmoor Is Not The World" | Furioso |
| John Cheever | "The Season of Divorce" | The New Yorker |
| Harris Downey | "The Hunters" | Epoch |
| Elizabeth Enright | "The Temperate Zone" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| J. Carol Goodman | "The Kingdom of Gordon" | Mademoiselle |
| Ethel Edison Gordon | "The Value of the Dollar" | Charm |
| William Goyen | "Her Breath Upon The Windowpane" | Harper's Magazine |
| Shirley Jackson | "The Summer People" | Charm |
| Josephine W. Johnson | "The Mother's Story" | Good Housekeeping |
| Ilona Karmel | "Fru Holm" | Mademoiselle |
| Oliver La Farge | "Old Century's River" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| George Lanning | "Old Turkey Neck" | Tomorrow |
| Ethel G. Lewis | "Portrait" | Epoch |
| Dorothy Livesay | "The Glass House" | The Northern Review |
| Robie Macauley | "The Wishbone" | The Sewanee Review |
| Bernard Malamud | "The Prison" | Commentary |
| Esther Patt | "The Butcherbirds" | The American Mercury |
| J.F. Powers | "Death of a Favorite" | The New Yorker |
| Paul Rader | "The Tabby Cat" | Quarto |
| Jean Stafford | "The Nemesis" | The New Yorker |
| Ray B. West, Jr. | "The Last of the Grizzly Bears" | Epoch |
| Tennessee Williams | "The Resemblance Between A Violin Case and a Coffin" | Flair |
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