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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 | 978-9997371591 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1953 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1955 |
The Best American Short Stories 1954 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Geoffrey Bush | "A Great Reckoning In a Little Room" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Richard Clay | "A Beautiful Night For Orion" | The Hudson Review |
| Benjamin Demott | "The Sense That In The Scene Delights" | Partisan Review |
| Ward Dorrance | "A Stop on the Way to Texas" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Legarde S. Doughty | "The Firebird" | Prairie Schooner |
| Elizabeth Enright | "Apple Seed and Apple Thorn" | Mademoiselle |
| Steve Frazee | "My Brother Down There" | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
| Ivan Gold | "A Change of Air" | New World Writing |
| Priscilla Heath | "Farewell, Sweet Love" | Western Review |
| Anne Herbert | "The House On The Esplanade" | Queen's Quarterly |
| Frank Holwerda | "Char On Raven's Bench" | Accent |
| Randall Jarrell | "Gertrude and Sidney" | The Sewanee Review |
| Almet Jenks | "No Way Down" | The Saturday Evening Post |
| George Loveridge | "The Latter End" | The Yale Review |
| Frances Gray Patton | "The Game" | The New Yorker |
| Robert Payne | "The Red Mountain" | Harper's Magazine |
| Rosanne Smith Robinson | "The Mango Tree" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Irwin Shaw | "In The French Style" | The New Yorker |
| Jean Stafford | "The Shorn Lamb" | The New Yorker |
| Kathrine Taylor | "The Pale Green Fishes" | Woman's Day |
| B. Traven | "The Third Guest" | Fantastic |
| Christine Weston | "The Man In Gray" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Ira Wolfert | "The Indomitable Blue" | Esquire |
| Vurrell Yentzen | "The Rock" | Quarto |
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